So very many words, so very little sense.
There are bits and pieces of English floating in this word swamp. Try to find them.
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Department Chair
Position
The Department of Gender Studies invites applications for the position of Associate Professor with tenure or Professor with tenure, and Chair of the Department of Gender Studies. Rank and status of the appointment will be determined in accordance with the Unit Standard of the Department and the provisions of the Collective Agreement. The effective date of the appointment is July 1, 2024.
Duties will include research, teaching, and service, as well as administrative service as the Chair of the Department for a 5-year term starting July 1, 2024.
Essential criteria
The successful candidate will have a PhD. with expertise in research and pedagogical engagement [teaching?] in one or more major areas of study in the field of gender studies. They will also have experience in administrative leadership.
Additionally, the successful applicant will demonstrate:
- The ability to lead a small Gender Studies department administratively with a strong commitment to the discipline of gender studies.
- Demonstrate experience and skill in innovative administrative leadership within educational institutions that must balance financial needs while striving to transform to meet the aspirations of decolonization, reconciliation, anti-racism, increased accessibility, and climate justice.
- Administrative experience that includes some but is not limited to the following: chairing meetings and committees; promoting teaching and research excellence; fostering effective communication and generative relationality among administrative staff, sessional instructors, and faculty; transparency in decision-making within the department and between the department and the administration; building community among administrative staff, sessional instructors, and faculty; budget planning and financial management; program planning and logistics; making difficult decisions in the face of competing interests; working on cross-faculty and university committees and initiatives; providing effective supervision, professional growth, and advising across different collective agreements; advocating for the interests of the department; and ensuring a positive public profile.
- Advocating for and supporting faculty at various stages of their career, providing effective supervision and professional development opportunities precarity [sic] of this work.
- Fostering collegial governance within the Department and the Faculty and with the Dean of Humanities and other administrative units at the University.
- Supporting student engagement and success.
- Experience leading the implementation of institutional commitments such as Indigenization, decolonization, anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Desirable criteria
It will be considered an asset if the candidate can demonstrate:
- Experience working with university-community partnerships.
- Experience mentoring and/or evaluating faculty, sessional lecturers, and staff.
- Experience chairing or serving on an appointment, reappointment, tenure, and promotion committee.
- Familiarity working in a unionized environment.
- A vision for decolonizing leadership and pedagogies.
Everyone is welcome to apply. In accordance with the University’s Equity Plan and pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preference will be given to members of the following groups: Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, people of Black, African, and Caribbean-descent, people of colour, people of diverse gender identities or expression and/or diverse sexual orientations. Candidates who wish to qualify for preferential consideration must clearly self-identify in their cover letter.
Remember, the “successful candidate” will
Demonstrate experience and skill in innovative administrative leadership within educational institutions that must balance financial needs while striving to transform to meet the aspirations of decolonization, reconciliation, anti-racism, increased accessibility, and climate justice.
The successful candidate will have a PhD. with expertise in research and pedagogical engagement [i.e., teaching]
And
Experience leading the implementation of institutional commitments such as Indigenization, decolonization, anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
As well as
A vision for decolonizing leadership and pedagogies.
In addition,
Preference will be given to members of the following groups: Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, people of Black, African, and Caribbean-descent [sic], people of colour, people of diverse gender identities or expression and/or diverse sexual orientations.
Do not forgive them their imbecilities. They know exactly what they do.
somehistory says
“major areas of study in the field of gender studies. ”
‘Major areas”….male and female genders. What makes a Man? What makes a Woman?
So, the preferred candidate will be someone who has dark skin color and claims to be what they are not…male pretending to be female, for instance, and who is strongly committed to making sure no person…great or small….claims that there are only two genders and that a male cannot “trans” fer himself into the body of a female, even if he takes gobs of hormones and has some elective, selective, surgery.
And by all means, this pretender must not allow anyone to say babies are being harmed by males pretending to be females, taking gobs of hormones and “chest-feeding” infants.
The pretender must also insist that males can *honestly* compete with actual women in sports of all kinds, that those who give birth are not called mothers, but “egg producers,” and other things that deflect from the Truth.
there will probably be a multitude of “qualified” candidates… Unqualified for disseminating Truth, however.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think they’re into the other 70 (or whatever the last gender count is) genders as well. They may well have dropped their “cis-male & cis female” genders
Rarely says
Historically Victoria has been the most British city outside of the UK — a real example of perfect colonialism if there ever was one. It has come a long way from when the favorite pastime was high tea at the Empress Hotel. One can only imagine how many of the old inhabitants, the most conservative of people, are turning over in their graves.
Peacelover says
‘Preference will be given to members of the following groups…’., wow,right there is racism/anti-white-ism. Kinda’ hypocritical’ and racist right there. My opinion.
somehistory says
They don’t allow themselves to admit that anyone other than a White person can be racist.
To admit that they are racists, would spoil their fun in calling White people racist. Probably spoil their dinner, too.
Wellington says
+1
Wellington says
Proving once again, Peacelover, that a group that has been oppressed or just thinks it has been oppressed does not want equality with the perceived oppressor but actually wants to become the new oppressor.
Wellington says
Gender Studies? A crap major if ever there were one. But indicative of just how far academia in the West has sunk.
Please spare me all the victim study courses, whether Gender Studies, African-American Studies, Latin-American Studies, Gay Studies, etc. All are rooted in a victim mentality and have little to nothing to do with a ruthless pursuit of the truth. Also, bogus “studies” majors require a “fall guy,” some evil group of people, and invariably it will be Western Civilization having been led by heterosexual white men (N.B., now extended to heterosexual white women, i.e., “Karens”).
The Age of Nonsense continues in full throttle. You bet it does.
somehistory says
Yes Wellington, to make a victim, their must be a villain.
Just as in a book of fiction, the protagonist must face a foe or major problems. It’s easier to write a foe than constant problems which don’t involve another person or persons.
the result of all of this money spent on “education,” is that the student has biases against other people; nothing useful for real life.
Craig Austin says
My Alma Mater can kiss my donation giving ass.
John Pepple says
Today America’s imperialist and colonialist tendencies are leftist. We pressure countries (like, if I remember correctly, Uganda) to adopt our views on homosexuality, for example.
So, I wonder what the anti-colonialists of academia think about that?
mg says
Thucydides 4th century BC: “Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal supporter; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question incapacity to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting a justifiable means of self-defense. [5] The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his opponent a man to be suspected. To succeed in a plot was to have a shrewd head, to divine a plot a still shrewder; but to try to provide against having to do either was to break up your party and to be afraid of your adversaries….
2500yrs later, they teach the deliberate distortion of words, the distortion of history, and the destruction of both.
Peter Dale says
A clear illustration of what our dear leader in Ottawa said when he became prime minister in 2015; namely, that Canada was the first post-modern nation because we have no core values. And we don’t.
J West says
Sick warped people who are not straight or white should apply.
White people should go to hell.
That is the message I get.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Language majors today: English is my first language but i also speak French, German, Spanish and Gobbledygook!