The University of Massachusetts at Boston is drafting a new controversial “vision statement” that would promote the university as an “anti-racist” and “health-promoting” institution. This new move has caused a heated debate among students and faculty members.
The University of Massachusetts at Boston is drafting a new “vision statement” that would promote the university as an “anti-racist” and “health-promoting” institution. This new move has caused a heated debate among students and faculty members.
An earlier iteration of the proposed statement published by the university’s Mission and Vision Committee had been criticized by more than 60 current and retired faculty members at the university.
That “vision statement” was ditched after an open letter was written by colleagues of UMass Boston’s College of Science and Mathematics (CSM). The faculty members expressed their deep concerns saying that the proposed mission statement is “deeply flawed in content, direction, and representation.”
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