The Campus Conservative

(Photo by Justine Warrington, "School" via Flickr) The neo-Marxist takeover is going forward at UT-Tyler. The university has hired yet another diversity officer for the institution, according to AVP Joshua Neaves who made the announcement to faculty on September 15.  The new Director for Student Diversity and Inclusion will help with “enhancing” diversity programs and with “providing training” to students, Neaves said. Moreover, the director’s will also oversee an new “Center for Unity” which, according to its website , seeks to help students understand “narratives” and “intersections” that “make up you and your community.”   Unfortunately, the director’s addition is another step the ongoing, neo-Marxist transformation that is happening at UT-Tyler. Readers should see it as such and realize their need to step-up their participation in university governance in order to preserve traditional values in these institutions.  First of all, consider the highly “political” na...

   (Source: Flickr) Campus conservatives should focus on reforming university policy while they are students as the most effective course of action for their campus advocacy. In the years I have watched student government at UT-Tyler, I have seen how powerfully individual student voices can influence administrators. Administrators are there to listen to students as stakeholders. How well or poorly decision-makers respond to student concerns is an important part of these administrators’ performance review by their superiors. Students have tremendous advocacy power to shape political (policy) outcomes within higher education when they advocate for positive change. Unfortunately, few conservative students seem to realize this truth. Instead, most often it has been the Left who has triumphantly marched through higher education. However, the good news is that conservative students can do this, too. Conservatives can participate in campus community just like anyone else. They ...