Heard Around the West
WASHINGTON
tuart Reges, who teaches computer science at the University of Washington’s Allen School, is in trouble: He refused to oblige the university by including a land acknowledgment statement in his course syllabi. Land acknowledgments are statements made at public events — or included in classroom syllabi — that recognize a region’s Indigenous peoples. Reges considers such acknowledgments “hollow,” no more than “performative virtue signaling,” though that didn’t stop
