Big education works about as well as big government.

The College Fix reports.

Massive diversity requirement planned for University of Missouri, taught by ‘army’ of TAs

Guaranteed jobs program for women and gender studies, black studies and others

The University of Missouri is working on a “diversity requirement” that could be imposed on all 6,000 freshmen and require “an army” of teaching assistants (TAs) to implement, by the reckoning of the committee developing it.

Its aim? To socially engineer students to think and behave in certain ways related to race and culture, and have its TAs “export” the program to other universities when they get faculty jobs.

The “cultural competency proposal” was posted last week among a slew of updates to the Mizzou Transparency portal, which itself was created this spring to provide updates on the administration’s diversity-related initiatives.

About two hours from the chaos of racial unrest in Ferguson, the university itself was recently accused of fostering an atmosphere of racism by its student body president.

Payton Head wrote on Facebook Sept. 12 that “some guys riding on the back of a pickup truck decided that it would be okay to continuously scream NIGGER at me,” blaming “THIS university” for “making me not feel included here” both as a black and gay man.

The post went viral. When Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin responded in a public letter five days later, stating that “one incident of bias is too many,” he told the community to look at the updates to Mizzou Transparency.

“We still have a tremendous amount of work to do, and I challenge everyone at Mizzou to stand against acts of bias and discrimination,” Loftin wrote.

Point is to change freshmen ‘attitudes and behavior’ on race and culture

The proposed new component “within the academic curriculum” is being devised by a committee led by Angela Speck, a professor of physics. It would include input and material from several different academic disciplines, and take several years to fully implement.