The recent election of Scott Yenor as chairman of the University of West Florida’s Board of Trustees has sparked discussions about potential changes to the institution’s educational approach.
- Today Rick talks with Heath Druzin, the creator and host of the podcast Extremely American. Druzin has extensively covered conservative education and the National Christian movements in Idaho. In this podcast, he outlines Yenor’s controversial background as a Boise State University professor, who gained national attention for his statements regarding women in higher education, including his view that universities should not encourage women to pursue careers in the sciences.
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****Yenor!! Total typo fail by me;)
As a female with an IT business and a mom with a bad-a** daughter who is crushing it as a recent WFHS valedictorian/current biomedical engineering major on a full-ride scholarship, I find Mr. Yoder’s position on most things to be sanctimonious and self-righteous. Most especially those things related to STEM, and even more so given that he’s a political science teacher and likely never solved a 5-step equation, solved any actual problems, or written a line of code. Also troubling is his personal pillar that only Western culture should be studied. I’m worried UWF is going to become New College, part duex. Terrible for the kids that are currently there, and the socio-economic profile of Pensacola in general.
It’s apprent to me that only when the universities were touched were the strict, in a sorts fundamentalist type, Christians under this deep scrutiny.