Texas Tech Course Teaches Critical Race Theory Despite State Ban on DEI
“examine how privilege in the workplace impacts the socioeconomic and cultural status of individuals and groups”
We’ll see more of this. Progressives in higher education are going to test things to see how far they can push despite the rules.
Campus Reform reports:
Texas Tech course teaches Critical Race Theory and intersectionality despite state DEI ban
Despite state law limiting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in public education, Texas Tech University has continued to offer a class that promotes Critical Race Theory and examines “privilege” within the workplace.
The class is offered by Texas Tech’s Human Resource Development Department and is entitled “Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Workplace.” The course is an online class for the University Studies program, as noted by Texas Scorecard.
The course description in the syllabus for the Fall 2024 version of the course describes how students will analyze issues “related to diversity leadership” as part of their coursework.
“Students will analyze organizational, cultural, and global workplace issues related to diversity leadership and gain cultural competencies necessary to manage a 21st-century multicultural workforce,” the description says.
The course has three required textbooks, including “Diversity Consciousness: Opening our minds to people, cultures, and opportunities,” “Diversity in the Workplace” and “Understanding and Managing Diversity.”
Diversity in the Workplace explores intersectionality, race, gender, LGBT issues, and “unconscious bias,” according to an online description.
The Texas Tech course description also states that students will study “issues associated with human diversity and inclusion” in order to assess claims about “diversity in human workplace experiences.”
“Students will explore multiple explanations for privilege relationships at different levels in the workplace,” the description continues, “and examine how privilege in the workplace impacts the socioeconomic and cultural status of individuals and groups.”
The class has been offered despite Texas’ anti-DEI S.B. 17 law, which has led to the removal of at least 131 scholarships in the state that were based on race or gender.
Journalist Luca Cacciatore told KTRH that the course is still allowed because the anti-DEI law currently does not cover curriculum.
“They are following the law, the law simply does not cover course curricula,” he said. “It covers DEI offices, they’re hiring practices, and who actually gets in to the universities. But once you get in, they can teach you all of this stuff.”
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The state of Texas is still funding and supporting DEI. There is no “state ban” really, it was in name only.
Fix it then fire the schemers doing this.
Banning the teaching of this poison would run into problems with the first amendment and with the principle of academic freedom.
The state can require the university, like any other employer, to comply with the law; it can’t (or at least it would be difficult to) tell it what it must and must not teach.
Maybe that fight is worth having, though. If the state takes the position that the only reason we have colleges in the first place is to produce educated and productive patriots, so if a college is going to teach doctrines that are the opposite of that goal then we may as well close it down, the courts would have a hard time refuting that reasoning.
Basically the state would be saying “Screw academic freedom, if you want that go somewhere else, all lectures at our colleges are government speech, just as they are in elementary and high schools. Just as we can tell high school teachers what to teach, we will tell college professors the same, and if they don’t like it they can go teach somewhere that believes in academic freedom”.