Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 1

On September 20, 2022, McHenry County Blog revealed that top officials of McHenry County College had undergone training for

  • expanding diversity,
  • equity,
  • belongingness, and
  • inclusion

and found it desirable for all faculty and every other employee to be subjected to the same 8-hour indoctrination.

I filed a Freedom of Information request for the course outline, which was denied.

After providing the college with the following information, I was told I could come in and see the information I sought:

PAC Confirms Copyright Material Should Not Be Disclosed Under FOIA but May Be Inspected – Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn (hlerk.com) [Emphasis added.]

Second, the PAC agreed with the District that FOIA cannot be a tool to access material otherwise protected by copyright. Under FOIA, information that is protected from disclosure by state or federal law cannot be disclosed pursuant to FOIA. 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(a). Copyright material is protected under Section 106 of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 106) and, therefore, cannot be disclosed without authorization. FOIA is not a proper tool to challenge copyright claims. Citing its own precedent, the PAC held that when material appears to be copyright protected, it is appropriate for the public body to invite a requester to inspect the material and not provide the requester with copies. Again, the PAC found the District acted appropriately.

So, on September 21st, I drove over to the campus.

On the way to the Presidential suite, I stopped at a fountain to get a drink and found it, like the one at Northwestern Medical’s facility on Route 31 north of Route 176, did not work. (Maybe MCC thinks Covid can be spread through drinking fountains. If so, not following the science.)

In any event, pen in hand, I was led to a conference room and given two sheets of paper, one showing the schedule and topics for faculty, another for other employees.

The following was written at the top of the faculty syllabus:

“This agenda and all other related material may not be shared with and individual outside of McHenry County College.

“Due to the proprietory and the interpersonal nature of the series, video audio recording and/or audio recordings are not allowed.”

The first class for faculty will be held on November 15th.

A summary of the contents follow:

Equity 101: An Overview and Social Construct of Self and Positionality

  • Develop common language regarding diversity, inclusion and equity
  • Dinstinguish between diversity and culture
  • Identify social constructs of self and positionaly
  • Consider the impact of the socialization process
  • Reflect on the socialization process about identies

Thh $16,400 is to be paid to Systemic Educational Equity, LLC.

The firm’s website states the following:

“We are committed to building capacity and guiding school districts, corporations and non-profits toward their ever-lasting journey of anti-bias/anti-oppressive efforts.  All of our consulting services are facilitated by BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ equity experts.”

Founder of the company, Dr. Ivette Dubiel, is “a member of the Community Leadership and Equity Advisory Council for U.S. Representative, Lauren Underwood, for the IL 14th Congressional district.

Previously, Huntley Unit School District 158 have availed itself of the services of the business.

In addition, listed as collaborators are the following local school districts:

  • Algonquin Unit School District 300
  • Crystal Lake High School District 155

In June, MCC advertised for a Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Belonging and Inclusion.

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Petitions may now be passed to gain a ballot position for next April’s MCC and school board elections.

Petitions may be obtained from the MCC President’s complex. It takes fifty signatures to get on the ballot, but I recommend getting one hundred.

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All of the article in the series:

Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 1

Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 2 – “Understanding Implicit Bias”

Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 3 – Microaggressions

Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 4 – “Modern Day-isms”

Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 5 – More on “Day-isms”

Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 6 – Still More on “-isms”


Comments

Making McHenry County College Woke – Part 1 — 14 Comments

  1. These Nabobs at MCC, will continue to rake in those exorbitant salaries.

    Then collect accolades for their Woke activism, while the workers get forced into struggle sessions.

  2. Socialist/Marxist “feel good” virtue signaling tactic meant for “right think” indoctrination
    control of the students and faculty.

    Thought control thru speech control brainwashing, it’s just that simple.

  3. Students are not required to underdo this training.

    Just everyone on the payroll.

  4. Cal, you should ask MCC for the copyright number(s) of the materials in question.

    After a couple of quick searches on the US Copyright Office site, I couldn’t find any copyrighted materials for

    Systemic Educational Equity, LLC or any of their key employees.

    Its quite possible I just didn’t use the right search names/terms or its possible that this material was never actually legally copyrighted and MCC has lied about it in order to prevent the release of these materials.

  5. equity?

    No thanks. I reject radical forms of egalitarianism like that.

    Equity involves harming entire groups of people based solely on their immutable and inherited characteristics and for the sins of other people long ago who had the same characteristics.

    I consider it to be immoral.

  6. Regarding:

    The following was written at the top of the faculty syllabus:

    “This agenda and all other related material may not be shared with and individual outside of McHenry County College.

    “Due to the proprietory and the interpersonal nature of the series, video audio recording and/or audio recordings are not allowed.”

    MATERIAL MAY NOT BE SHARED WITH ANY INDIVIDUAL OUTSIDE OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE????

    Very suspicious. MCC is a “taxpayer” funded school and not a private company, or corporation, wishing to control ITS proprietary information.

    What is IN the “material” that has to be secretive to citizens and taxpayers in McHenry County?

    Are faculty and instructors being indoctrinated?

    Programmed?

  7. Again, what a joke. In order to keep your job you need to sit thru 8 hours of this drivel.

    Blackrock and Vanguard have now seeped into the psyche of administrators and teachers with the help of the MSM psy op.

    We’re heading towards the cliff at a high rate of speed and of course our taxdollars are funding it.

  8. Damn it Bred!

    I dropped out of High School the first time so I wouldn’t have to read crap like this!

    I’m sure not going to do it now, not at my age.

  9. Why isn’t cuckservative Buehler doing something about this? Answer: he’s a weak stooge, and Tadelman told him not to do a ‘damn thing”!

  10. The McHenry County College Board is separate from the McHenry County Board.

  11. Taxpayers of McHenry County, including parents of students, who fund MCC ought to be able to not only look at but get a complete copy (per a fair price) of the course content of the DEBI material scheduled for faculty.

    That is not all.

    Every taxpayer of the County should be able to VIEW the entire course presentation to one or more faculty sessions on a ZOOM broadcast.

    MCC has been offering ZOOM classes at a reasonable fee and they should offer this course on ZOOM.

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