New DEI Course Requirement at U. Arizona Slammed as ‘Academically Unserious’
“will focus on issues such as racism, classism, sexism, ableism, imperialism, colonialism, transphobia, xenophobia, and other structured inequities”
It’s amazing that the school is even doing this as so many states are dismantling DEI policies.
The College Fix reports:
New U. Arizona DEI course requirement hit with criticism: ‘academically unserious’
As universities nationwide scale back diversity, equity and inclusion policies, Arizona’s flagship public institution is preparing to implement a new mandate for students — two courses with a DEI emphasis as a graduation requirement.
Through the two courses, students will focus on themes of diversity, power, equity, privilege, oppression and marginalization, learn “how historical and contemporary populations have experienced inequality,” and “theorize how to create a more equitable society,” the university’s website states.
“…Classes with the Diversity & Equity Attribute will focus on issues such as racism, classism, sexism, ableism, imperialism, colonialism, transphobia, xenophobia, and other structured inequities,” the university states.
The DEI mandate is part of a general education curriculum update at the University of Arizona and takes effect in fall 2026. In the meantime, it has prompted criticisms from a high-profile conservative think tank in the state.
Students “will be forced to take courses with academically unserious content that adds nothing to their education,” Timothy Minella, a researcher with the Goldwater Institute, told The College Fix.
Minella authored the institute’s report criticizing the DEI mandate. Published this month, it argues “general education programs were originally intended to help students gain knowledge and skills essential for thoughtful citizenship and successful careers.”
But the new DEI requirements “instead promote politically activist ideologies to a captive audience of students, who must complete the programs in order to receive a degree,” it adds.
Susan Miller-Cochran, professor of English and executive director of UA’s general education, said the courses are in response to an Arizona Board of Regents policy “to contribute to a society that values ‘equality under the law, diversity, inclusion, and constructive dialogue through civil discourse.’”
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despite the foxnews hopes and the msm lies
this sh is deep into our culture now and getting worse
the treasury the fed etc are now full on dei agenda where your accounts are now going to subjected to “trouble”
ignore now like everything else you HOPE will just go away
Creating these DEI courses is a political effort, not an educational one.
Making them mandatory is pure indoctrination.
Equity is against “equality under the law”.
How are these courses even consistent with the Regents’ mandate “to contribute to a society that values ‘equality under the law”, let alone supporting the mandate?
Sounds like this might interest EPP.
Without getting into the argument of whether the University of Arizona is actually the state’s “flagship public institution…”
(Out here, we refer to it as the “art school.”)
The “fuck you” is strong here in our state college system, all three of them. The administrators, all the way up to the Regents, exercise specially-legislated extraordinary (some might say totalitarian) powers among unelected state officials, and they eagerly abuse them to promote leftism at every available opportunity.
No graduation without indoctrination.
“to contribute to a society that values ‘equality under the law, diversity, inclusion, and constructive dialogue through civil discourse.’”
DEI is the antithesis of “civil discourse” almost by definition, and definitely by implementation.
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