Students Boo Mandatory Diversity Class at University of Oklahoma
Have students had enough of mandatory diversity?
The College Fix reports.
New mandatory diversity class at University of Oklahoma draws boos from students
Freshmen will be required to take a 5-hour course on diversity in their first year, starting this fall at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa World reported in June.
Now that students are trickling back to campus, some are telling The Oklahoma Daily they think the course is a waste of time:
Joseph Lyon, a mathematics junior, said the program seems counter-intuitive.
“The university is wanting students to be more inclusive of other cultures and backgrounds, but … it should just be taken at face value that you can accept people of other cultures — that you have that level of intelligence already,” Lyon said.
Tim Smith, a journalism junior, said the program may be beneficial, but unnecessary.
“People have a pretty good idea that racism isn’t acceptable. If people don’t understand, they should be given information, but it’s generally about if the person wants to be accepting or not,” Smith said.
The course is part of the portfolio for the new vice president of diversity programs, Jabar Shumate, a former press secretary to President David Boren (an ex-U.S. senator) who will be making between $200,000 and $250,000 a year, the Associated Press reported.
New mandatory diversity class at University of Oklahoma draws boos from students (The College Fix)
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hahahahHAHAHAhahaha
/Foreigners should come here, expecting to adopt OUR culture.
Screw them.
[…] CI: Have students had enough of mandatory diversity? […]
I’m waiting for the course “How PC is killing our country”.
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Want to know why college tuition is so high? Administrations top-heavy with jokers like Shumate who make six-figure salaries to cook up this kind of stupidity. I used to teach a Constitutional Argument course in which plenty of “offensive” discussion took place, and the students loved it. I had a waiting list for my course every semester, and I warned students on the first day that there was the potential for widely divergent views and that they needed to drop the class if they couldn’t handle it. I only had one student drop the class, but only because he thought there was too much work after seeing the syllabus.
The most disconcerting part about this report is that there’s a position at a public university called “vice president of diversity programs” that pays between $200,000 and $250,000 a year. Is there also a president of diversity programs? How much does that pay?
Hell, SUNY Brockport pulled this on us in 1972 or so. There was a set of cultural indoctrination courses that you had to take or no diploma. I am proud to say I don’t have a diploma.
There’s more about them, too…
It still isn’t as bad as it is in the Army. We had QUARTERLY requirements for training on things like sexual harassment, Equal Opportunity, Consideration of others, etc. Like someone’s going to forget in three months what sexual harassment is, or what EO is.
Come to find out, in peacetime, there’s so much extra money that senior officers can polish up their OER by making up some BS problem that they’ve already got a solution for…hiring some “expert” to train the soldiers not to do X or Y. Not that X or Y has anything to do with success on the battlefield (and sometimes it will interfere with success on the battlefield). This is exactly what’s happening in colleges. The college president has a solution to a non-existent problem, funds for it, and voila, he’s done something more than the guy before him.
As I like to point out, a logical concomitant of the ‘diversity is essential to education’ theme is that anti-miscegenation laws are necessary to preserve diversity’s raw material. Loving would have to be decided differently in a ‘diversity’ environment.