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The events at the University of Delaware follow a common trend among academic institutions, and—despite their shocking nature—fail to surprise those familiar with university-sponsored politically-correct mantras.

Diversity skits and dialogues are a mandatory part of new students’ orientation, after a social media controversy riled students.

In 1978, the significant Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case brought the term “diversity” into the lexicon of higher education. Although the Court found that the medical school at the University of California at Davis had used an unconstitutional quota system in denying Alan Bakke admission, Justice Lewis Powell made his now-famous observation that, notwithstanding the inherent […]

In the concurring opinion of Whitney v. California (1927), Justice Louis Brandeis outlined the importance of free speech on college campuses stating, “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” Many […]

As campuses across the country are roiled in paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, some black students, enraged and emboldened by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of an abusive white police officer, have formed coalitions and presented elaborate, and breathtakingly audacious, lists of demands which they have nailed to the doors of […]

It turns out that graduates think they can benefit from them too.

Apparently students who prize diversity uber alles do not place as high a premium on spontaneity, or liberty.

Dr. Paul Griffiths urged colleagues to not attend diversity training and ended up resigning when faced with two disciplinary actions at Duke Divinity School.

Pins and graduation cords for eight weeks of workshops on diversity and inclusion! Participation trophies! The George Washington University is now offering a “diversity graduation cord” to students who complete at least eight weekly training sessions this year. The topics include “Unconscious Bias,” “Gendered Language,” “LGBTQIA Safe Zone,” training, and more. The program is put […]

Imposing social justice training sounds inclusive, doesn’t it? The course will debut as a pilot program during the fall term, which starts in late September, and the full roll-out will happen toward the beginning of winter term, which starts in January, a university official told The College Fixvia email. The new program “is intended to […]

From Campus Reform: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has taken another step toward implementing student diversity demands, releasing an updated plan that includes mandatory cultural sensitivity training and new diversity-related curriculum requirements. The new “Diversity and Inclusivity Action Plan” comes amid intensifying criticism from SLO Solidarity, a student activist group that issued a 41-point ultimatum […]

From the College Fix: American University’s Fanta Aw, assistant vice president of campus life and a sociologist by training, said students are coopting phrases like “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” without understanding their psychological origins. “Most of our students really don’t understand free speech,” and officials are to blame for not teaching them, Aw told the room of […]