or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction "stay woke", recorded since at least 1924.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

Here's the doctor who's going to educate 1's of West Virginian youth in countering it:

https://www.duq.edu/faculty-and-staff/patrick-lee-miller.php

the site liked to have a hand-wringing meltdown.

...perhaps it was during one of my several dormant periods. I'm glad the hissy fit has abated.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

s/he knows their name is going to show up in one or more lists, and who knows what that list will be used for... and by whom? And the first thought in this administration will always go to the worst-case scenario first.

We have lost our rights and liberties, for the most part...handed them over to trump lock, stock and barrel. Our "freedom" is an illusion, and then only if you're MAGA. The rest of us pretty much know the score, especially if POC, female, or non gender normative.

The single student signed up for the anti-woke made up right-wing major.

My KB is giving out on me... as soon as I can find a decent one around here and get it hooked up, I'll got back into the full story and read it... not just what was posted here. It *sounded* to me from that little bit... that a new elective going back to covering the history, etc., of DEI was being offered and only one student signed up for it. I didn't get a right/left angle to it at all. But, like I said, I only read the snippet. I'll dig a big deeper. Because I'd love to see some of these universities fight back for academic freedom.

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. .no credit. That's strange....

.... They pay you to take the courses!

that it's full of West Virginians

...that university students would line up to get into this program? Sheesh. They're gonna need a class that fulfills half a dozen lower division gen ed core requirements simultaneously before they that major gets any traction. Maybe they can convince the local college republican chapter's members to add it as a cheap and easy minor.

"That's right, sir, I majored in accounting with a minor in right wing anti-wokism. I am the culture warrior your company needs!" No offense intended to accountants, of course.

"Dr. Miller and the Washington Center (are going to) help return higher education to its true purpose."

WHICH IS BEING FUCKING WOKE. Okay? Take out all the stuff right-wingers hate about being woke and questioning things and you're left with a trade school. Didn't any of these assholes ever see South Park? "Children, there's a time and a place for everything - and it's called college."

...what exactly they think is truly higher education's "true purpose."

BULLSHIT

I'd say that it has changed over time, adapting and adopting new ways of thinking and being, or is there some alleged "golden age" of higher education? How far back would that be?

https://russblib.blogspot.com

Which is why I have no intentions to ever set foot in WV.

You won't learn anything, but grading is a no-brainer., easy A.