Penn State Law Faces Scrutiny Over Mandatory ‘Antiracism’ Course

Penn State Law Faces Scrutiny Over Mandatory ‘Antiracism’ Course

Even the students are calling this political indoctrination.

The College Fix reports:

Penn State law school defends mandatory ‘antiracism’ class

Penn State Dickinson Law defended a mandatory first-year class about “antiracism” recently after at least two students accused the school of political indoctrination.

The law school, which is public, has faced Congressional scrutiny and is the target of a civil rights complaint. Along with requiring the course “Race and the Equal Protection of the Laws,” it also runs an Antiracist Development Institute that works “to dismantle structures that support systemic racial inequality and intersectional injustice.”

“No changes are planned to 1L [first year] curriculum established for the 2026-2027 academic year,” including the controversial class, the law school told CBS News 21 in a statement last week.

“The law school also endeavors to provide an open and respectful learning environment for all who teach and study at Penn State Dickinson Law …  one in which students are encouraged to explore and challenge differing perspectives,” it stated.

However, some students who have taken the class said the opposite.

One male student, who spoke to CBS 21 on the condition of anonymity, described it as “purely political.”

“They wanted to indoctrinate a new generation of more activist lawyers,” the student said, adding that the class teaches that the U.S. was “founded on white supremacist ideals.”

The student said the class did benefit him by forcing him to “critically evaluate” his own beliefs, which were “put to the test every day.”

And while the professor did present opposing views, it was not done in an “even-handed way” and students with liberal and progressive beliefs were not challenged to consider the merits of differing views, he said.

When asked why he did not drop out, the student said law school is a “hefty financial commitment,” so he put his “head down and grind[ed] through it.”

Another student, David Blackman did quit after Dickinson denied him an exemption from the class, The Fix previously reported.

In July, Blackman testified to Congress that the course is designed “to teach the structure of the nation’s constitutional democracy through the ‘lens of enslavement and racism.’”

“For years now, every law student who’s come through Penn State Dickinson Law has had to sit and be told that law enforcement is racist, the law is racist, and it needs to be overturned,” he told The Fix previously.

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