Top 3 Most Outrageous DEI Courses Found in New University Catalogs
From designed courses to establish “social justice advocacy” among students, to a course specifically studying “whiteness,” these three courses are sure to raise a few eyebrows.
CriticalRace.Org’s work has included meticulously examining university course catalogs to assess the extent to which diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) content persists in higher education.
As the new fall semester gets underway, universities across America are once again revealing what they are putting on the syllabus and what students will be learning in the classroom. While many universities continue to offer DEI-focused courses, a few of them uniquely stood out. From designed courses to establish “social justice advocacy” among students, to a course specifically studying “whiteness,” these three courses are sure to raise a few eyebrows.
1.Ithaca College’s “The Politics of Whiteness”
According to College’s 2026-27 Course Catalog, students may choose to take a course titled “The Politics of Whiteness” in the Fall semester. This course examines the “emergence of whiteness as a category that determines the distribution of rights and privileges including voting rights, property rights, and the right to own one’s own body.”
2. Stanford Law School’s “Critical Race Theory”
Even after the apparent crackdown on Critical Race Theory in higher education, Stanford’s Law School maintains a course instructing future attorneys in identity politics. Stanford Law School offers a course titled “Critical Race Theory” in the 2026-2027 Autumn semester, which “explores Critical Race Theory (CRT), mapping its origins in the late 1980s in the US legal academy and exploring its transnational and international trajectories.” Other topics of focus in this course include the “attempts to grapple with race and racism as global structures mutually constitutive with law and imperialism.”
3. Arkansas State’s “Social Justice and Advocacy”
The trend of teaching college students to develop advocacy towards left-leaning agendas continues on campuses. In the Arkansas State’s 2026–2027 Undergraduate Catalog, a course titled “Social Justice and Advocacy” is offered in the Fall semester, which is designed to “create a foundational understanding of underrepresented populations, social justice, and advocacy.” The course also maintains the goal of “help[ing] foster and develop advocacy skills.”
These courses illustrate the range of DEI and critical race-related coursework that remains available at universities across the country. From examining whiteness and racial privilege to exploring Critical Race Theory and developing social justice advocacy skills, these offerings raise broader questions about the role and influence of such material in higher education.
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Obviously, current attempts to eliminate DEI and CRT from “higher education” are insufficient. There is only one way to accomplish the goal.
Close the schools. Fire that staffs. Raze the Buildings. Plow the land. Plant corn.
Then revisit the topic in a couple of generations.
Alternatively we could look through the employment records and identify folks assigned to DEI roles when the schools were more open about it then compare that list to current employees/departments. Where we find significant employee overlap and/or the formally independent DEI dept to be renamed and tucked discreetly into another department with its DEI/CRT mission continuing ….those institutions really should be razed to the ground.
For the remainder or even for all of them as an intermediate step … cut off their eligibility for Student loans, GI bill, Pell Grant and obviously all grant eligibility. Give them a final opportunity to voluntarily do the right thing and then if they don’t bring in the bulldozers and wrecking balls. If any of the lefty loons wish to stand in the path that’s their choice but it will have significant consequences b/c we ain’t gonna pause.
I had the misfortune of teaching in the same school as Robin DiAngelo, the ghostly white self hating proponent of “white fragility.” She was as crazy as a basket of bat guano then, and appears to have only gotten worse. Here are some of the things she “taught” (propagandized) back then (2007-2015) when she left to be even more radical:
Robin DiAngelo taught several required and elective courses during her tenure as an associate professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University from 2007 to 2015. Her curriculum focused on culturally responsive teaching, social justice, and the structural analysis of race and privilege.
Key courses included:
Multicultural Education: A required course examining ways to teach with and across group differences.
Addressing Racism in Education: Focused on identifying and mitigating racial biases in school systems.
Unmasking the School to Prison Pipeline: Analyzed the systemic issues linking education and incarceration.
Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education: Integrated diversity and inclusion into math pedagogy.
Gender in Education: Explored gender dynamics within educational contexts.
Principles of Teaching & Learning: Covered foundational educational theories.
Schools in Society: Examined the broader social role of schools.
Additionally, she co-taught Intergroup Dialogue Facilitation, a two-quarter sequence providing skills for working with diverse teams, and taught
Building Advanced Skills for Engaged Community Practice, which deepened the concepts from her earlier social work courses.
She’s a self-loathing grifter, with mental issues.
Disciples of Robin DiAngelo successfully blew up the “School to Prison Pipeline,” enabling the toxic leakage of killers like NIkolas Cruz and others into the general US population, where they were free to escalate and eventually commit entirely heinous crimes.
Thank you for the enlightening post.
They forgot to check Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Maybe ole Robin should move her focus more to her “homeland”, the continent of Africa! Things like why our people are still in such dire situations after how many centuries of civilization? And why as a civilization, so many succumb to diseases unheard of in the western world (Ebola on the rampage at the moment). But of course I’m sure she attributes to the problems suffered by the “Dark Continent” all the fore mention atrocities she was preaching in her university classes.
I known white that were far below in education and pay compared to blacks but those people are never discussed.
To sail against the wind I have no objections to such courses – as long as the university doesn’t make them mandatory.
There are people who want to take “Underwater Basket Weaving”: there are even some who fail it.
Myself, I’d prefer to give (not demonstrate) a course in “How to examine, locate, and assay the gold content in bovine excrement” for interested in such.
If I was younger and lived nearby I’d try to get into their class be a real pain in their butt telling truths and embarrassing them any chance I could get.
My body, my choice unless you fascist, racist professors try to mandate the clot shot. And so on and so on.
It is clear that DEI goes against Federal Civil Rights Act. As such all Federal money should be removed from any college that has a DEI course. If it is a state run college then all state colleges should lose Federal money. This will end if DEI is ended,
She can teach anything she wants, but as far as paying her:
-None of these DEI courses should be required.
-Scholarships should not apply to a course that has no return-on-investment to the student, and a course that may violate the Civil Rights Act.
If the student wants to pay cash money out of their own pocket to attend, let them. I would wager the university soon realizes this stuff is a waste of space and enrollment would never cover the rent.
I would expect that a university, such as Stanford, develop a much more critical view of Critical Race Theory. I read the full course description and Prof E. Tendayi Achiume’s short bio and conclude that little time, if any, will be spent on why Critical Race Theory is a deeply flawed, though unfortunately influential, concept. It would have been instructive for the students to be exposed to at least some of its flaws but that will have to be in another course by a different professor.
Wait, just one course and not a full 4-year curriculum of focused study on the Politics of Critical White Race Whiteness Theory and Whiteness Advocacy for POCs? Like, what gives, man?
The Department of Education should issue a REQUIRED Course in order to receive ANY US Taxpayers’ funds – “The TRUTHS about Race”! That course should contain the REAL history of slavery, who backed it, who fought and died to end it, the DEMOcrat strategy of NEW SLAVERY (Johnson’s 200 years quote included), the Republicans’ fight for the Civil Rights Laws and DEMOcrats’ opposition, the resulting devastation of the black Family, the endless misery caused by generational welfare, the statistics of black on black crimes, the efforts of Gov’t officials to help the black communities, and just for kicks, the absolute reason why we need PROOF of Citizenship and Identity of All Voters! That’s a lot to cover in one course, but they’re supposed to be COLLEGE people!