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Citizens exposing admin & faculty grift at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University. DM News & Views | [email protected] #YourTaxDollarsAtWork #Laurier

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

One of our major issues is that many on Laurier’s Board can’t be fired, because they are appointed cronies. If we could fire them, we’d start with @RoyceBodaly @berryonline @ChantalHuinink They have zero relevant background and are patronage appointments causing harm to #laurier

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

⁦@LaurierPres⁩ must resign!!! Shame on her for allowing her hefty senior administrator salaries to be used to “organize a protest against a speaker invited by [our] own faculty.” She’s turned our university into a “university”. https://t.co/gSXhfEm3E7

[Dominion Society of Canada @DominionSoc]

A warm welcome to the students of Wilfrid Laurier University in Kitchener-Waterloo, ON 🤗

Join to get involved 👉🏻 https://t.co/IuUHE1oOuM

[Kawhi/Raptors Enthusiast 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @Kawhifor3]

I thought LA Fitness was crowded past 5 PM….until I entered the gym of Wilfrid Laurier University at 7 PM😭😭

[David Millard Haskell @DMillardHaskell]

We should start the replacements with foreign reporters who can work for peanuts & oust our current journalists who rely on govt bribes for most of their income.

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

@ADHSDubai @PrincipalADHS You do realize we aren’t Harvard, right? Everyone who has darkish skin colour gets in.

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

Chinese students are hooking up to cheat and have #sexy time @laurier. How much does each menu item cost? @BrockCivis @UWaterlooCivis @TrentCivis looks like your Chinese associates can also get in on the action!

[theghost0x0 @theghost0x0]

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[Xanaxbot @Bad_Takes_Bot]

"intersectionality" lol I love those leftist terms.
Reminds me of the struggle session @NewWorldHominin had to go through at Wilfrid Laurier University.
In her struggle session it was the term "positionality".
They just add an "ality" to the end of any random word to mean oppression and oppressionality.

[Policing Insight @PolicingInsight]

A new report suggests Canadian police leadership is “in flux” with chiefs turning over at an alarming rate; lead researcher, Wilfrid Laurier University Assistant Professor Tarah Hodgkinson, spoke to Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons about the importance of collaborative decision-making, the need for more understanding and training for oversight boards, and the potential positive impact of greater diversity, as part of a range of measures to tackle the churn at the top of policing.

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@Laurier @TarahHodgkinson

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

They are paying tuition so why care? Business is business..oh wait, we aren’t a business..No wait.. according to our Board & their puppets, we are a business. And let’s not forget—if you teach students it’s okay to lie about biology, cheating can’t be so bad? #laurier #sexy time

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:

"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

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"By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.”

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AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences.

It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions.

This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed.

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[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

the “Mnimcelx they/them” @Laurier prof who invented “mmiwg2slgbtqiaa” has a mini-essay on her faculty page about “the academic industrial complex”
Turns out the “academic industrial complex” pays ms. mnimcelx six figures a year (your taxes at work) to teach students this crap

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

Meanwhile the same anti-white-male #racists from our Office of Research Services used tax dollars to fund a mostly white-women junket to NWT—all expenses paid—so they could return and engage in “quiet, personal work of reflection”. Perfect! Tax dollars for private reflection!

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

https://t.co/lbCiCOLWad

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

Over 60 “researchers” featured by @laurier’s Office of Research Services. A tiny minority are men, and less than 10% are white heterosexual bio-men. Numbers don’t lie. #racism #sexism… all to celebrate the likes of our internationally notorious chief of embarrassing acronyms.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Wilfrid Laurier University is highlighting the work of professor Percy Lezard, who helped develop the lengthy MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ acronym for “missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual+." Canadians should reject ever-growing categories, labels and identity politics, and instead embrace the principles of the rule of law and equality before the law.

https://t.co/hH3r2mqHXM

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

Maybe we can get an NSERC grant to pay for them to come provide entertainment at our next conference.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

It's like some Victorian-era carnival sideshow featuring abandoned disabled children or indigenous curiosities seized overseas, but it's very progressive and enlightened because they're wearing womenface

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

So racism is still alive and well here @Laurier #wilfridlaurier even if they have abandoned bragging about it on social media! Why not fire all the white admins and replace them with more racially deserving individuals if they think this is so important? Oh, right….

[Geoff Horsman @HorsmanGeoff]

At Laurier's research grant DEI workshop, participants were prompted to address systemic barriers.

One suggested inviting black people to give seminars.

When I suggested DEI racism is wrong and not empirically supported, we were counseled to report only favorable evidence.

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

Check it out! Our busy campus pervs are at it again! “Consent is Golden” and @Laurier staff will “discreetly” help your daughters become “sugar babies” to pay their tuition and support our big salaries! Spotted in the “ladies” room. #wilfridlaurier @LaurierPres @jonkay

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

Hey @Laurier and @LaurierPres you seem to be behind the decolonizing ball on this! Why, if you are committed to reconciliation haven’t you created way-finding animal pictographs for our own settler class? Can’t believe we didn’t think of this, ourselves. We need a new VP!

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

This whole racist TTC plan seems to involve putting little animal symbols on things, because apparently they think indigenous people are all four-year olds who don’t understand how words and street signs work, and so they need to look at little pictures

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

@HorsmanGeoff @LaurierPres Who is this Anna-bee-in-her-bonnet, influencing so much of the X-osphere? Maybe Deb in disguise?

[LaurierUCivis @LaurierCivis]

God bless dear Chief @Aaronpete_

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Geoff Horsman @HorsmanGeoff]

Universities must uphold rigorous standards of accountability—own the mistake and issue a retraction/correction along w/ original statement.

I teach about retraction in scientific journals. The same applies here, but the stakes are higher.

@LaurierPres must lead by example.