Nature is healing, wokeness is in retreat, publicly being a Christian isn't quite so professionally dangerous anymore.
This latest example of the cultural shift comes from East Lansing. After being vocal about her Christian faith and criticisms of Marxist equity policies, a Michigan State University professor was passed over for tenure.
That has now changed:
Professor Marisol Quintanilla recently won tenure from the public university in Lansing after intervention from the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism ...
The group argued in a January letter that the school discriminated against Quintanilla after she faced backlash in 2022 for criticizing DEI policies. She also declined to list her gender on university forms, 'believing these questions implicitly endorsed ideological positions contrary to her faith.'
During peak woke, circa 2022, pronouns and diversity statements were required in order to get anything in the world of academics.
Now, we're all pretending it never happened.
Of course, Michigan State says it was just a coincidence that they didn't get around to her review until after they were threatened with a lawsuit.
Michigan State U. said the letter did not lead to tenure.
'A letter from any outside organization would have no bearing on the review process,' spokeswoman Amber McCann told The Fix via email.
In 2023, the group helped Quintanilla when her department chair, Hannah Burrack, mandated the professor "write a DEI statement as part of her annual review." Burrack also had asked Quintanilla to retract an article criticizing diversity initiatives.
The lady just wants to teach. Why in the world do universities care about diversity statements and why was it part of her performance review?
(This requirement has since been dropped after Quintanilla's pushback)
It's back to Nematology work for Marisol. No more woke side quests.
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