Who-Stole-Feminism.-How-Women-Have-Betrayed-Women

A BUREAUCRACY OF ONE'S OWN 127reachables" early in the faculty hiring process. Cornell College in Iowawas one of the first to make such policies official. All applicants forteaching positions at Cornell College must show that they are conversantwith and sympathetic to the new feminist scholarship. According to a1988 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education,Dennis Damon Moore, dean of the College, says that prospectivefaculty members are asked at interviews what impact feminist scholarshiphas had on their work and teaching. In addition, he says,when faculty members are reviewed, they are specifically asked toexamine the relationship of the feminist perspective to their work. 20Six years later these sorts of developments are no longer "news," andthe Chronicle does not report on them. The transformationists have comea long way in a very short time. How much farther they will go dependson the university faculties and the independent learned societies, whichhave so far shown little inclination to make a stand in defense of thetraditional standards of liberal learning. Moreover, the transformationistsare increasingly seeing to it that the faculties themselves are changing toinclude more and more people of the "right consciousness." As the numberof doctrinally correct personnel grows, they, too, will see to it thatonly candidates of like qualifications are hired in the future. Ironically,the ongoing self-selection of faculty of the right feminist persuasion isbeing carried out in the name of "diversity" and "inclusiveness."There are hundreds of well-funded transformationist projects throughoutthe country. Peggy Mcintosh's Center for Research on Women atWellesley College has a multimillion-dollar budget. The project at theUniversity of Maryland has half a million to work with. The doyenne oftransformationists, Caryn McTighe Musil, and her associates at the Associationof American Colleges will have $4.5 million. Almost all transformationistprojects are financially helped by being housed in theuniversities, where rent, postage, and other overhead is minimal. Manyuse the secretarial staffs and services of their host colleges.Much of their funding comes from foundation grants, but the bulk ofit comes from public funds, via state support for universities. In additionto the many individual projects supported within the universities, thereare the umbrella organizations such as the AAC, which are now committedto the educational philosophy and agenda of the transformationists.And there, again, the university bureaucracies are paying.