Universities face controversy over far-left curriculum content
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Last year, Fox News Digital reported extensively on far-left curricula and courses at universities across the country; Many of these sparked backlash from conservatives and parental rights groups.
This month, PowerPoint lectures leaked In a first-year training course at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, material accusing President Trump of “white supremacy” as well as illegal immigration and far-left bias on race and gender emerged.
Fox News Digital reported Another college class controversy occurred in early October at the University of Oklahoma, where a student who received a zero out of 25 on an assignment about gender norms said she was targeted for her Christian beliefs, citing the harsh reaction of the teacher’s assistant who was handing out notes.
This week the teacher’s assistant He was fired by the university.
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A young man is sitting at a classroom desk and covering his face with his hands because he looks stressed and overwhelmed during class. (Canart7/iStock)
Fox News Digital at the University of Minnesota, first to report Following a situation uncovered by Defending Education in which the university hosted a webpage warning of the “epidemic of whiteness” providing “resources” on how to “stop and reverse” the problem.
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities explains: “If you were born or raised in the United States, you grew up in the Pandemic of Whiteness, and you can play a role in stopping and reversing this epidemic, especially if you are White because of the power and privilege you have in this racialized society.” web pageIt is part of the Child Development Institute.
“If you were socialized into a culture of Whiteness during childhood, it is not your fault, but as an adult it is now your responsibility to self-reflect, re-educate yourself, and take action. If you are a White adult, anti-racist action involves an ongoing process of self-reflection to develop a healthy, positive White identity while engaging in courageous anti-racist parenting/caregiving.”
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The university stood behind the curriculum, citing its “commitment to the principles of academic freedom.”
The Texas A&M University System Board of Trustees issued a statement in September, Fox News Digital reportedHe called for an audit of all his courses after a student was allegedly removed from class for questioning course content about transgenderism.
In the deep red state of Arkansas, Fox News Digital reported The English department at a state university offers an interdisciplinary writing course called “Queer Childhoods,” according to the school’s course directory.
course focuses A vague description of the offer on the University of Central Arkansas website says it is for “evaluating academic arguments and writing articles that build arguments and draw on scholarly sources.” “The course is thematic; instructors select topics and select an interdisciplinary set of readings that focus on that topic.”
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Fox News Digital at Princeton University earlier this year reported The school offers a course in which students examine the intersection of gender studies and what the course calls the “genocide” in Gaza.
“This seminar explores genocide through gender analysis, focusing on the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” says the course description on Princeton’s website. “Drawing on decolonial, Indigenous, and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures, and the survival of society.”
A University of North Georgia student told Fox News Digital that a textbook for one of his classes labeled Christianity as a “US-based white supremacist group.”
College senior Kelbie Murphy paid nearly $100 for a textbook assigned to her International Public Relations class. The opening passage of Chapter 8 reads: “An internet search produces the following modifier for identity: institutional, sexual, digital, public, racial, national, brand, and even christian (a US-based white supremacist group).”
“The way it was worded, he listed several marginalized groups, but then he called Christians just White supremacists,” Murphy said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. “But the scariest thing is that the book was written in 2007.”
At the beginning of the year, Fox News Digital reported that the Department of Education had awarded more than $200 million since 2021 to forty-eight universities that injected DEI content into advising courses that included topics on anti-racism, microaggressions, white privilege, and whiteness.
Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca and Preston Mizell contributed to this report.
