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U. Tennessee to launch CRT center, require professors commit to DEI for tenure | The College Fix
Hopefully the legislature shuts this down.
A slate of diversity plans filed by individual schools within the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will require some professors to commit to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices to gain tenure, create a new critical race center on campus, and embed diversity-based curricula throughout the university, according to plans obtained by The College Fix.
“We will identify all current classes in which race and racism are principal focuses and work with Faculty Senate and Undergraduate Council to highlight or require those classes in Vol Core,” reads the diversity division’s proposal.
The university’s libraries in their diversity plan vow to “examine library fines and fee-based services for students to determine their efficacy and equity.”
The College of Nursing proposed to “increase awareness of cultural competence through the consideration of a policy for recognition of non-Judeo-Christian holidays.”
There is one positive action item:
Perhaps the most unique proposal, however, came from the Haslam Business School, which considered programs to attract more military students as “diversity.” The school suggested implementing a Military Visit Day, enhancing promotion of current military students on the College of Business website, and creating a military recruitment video.
Hopefully the legislature shuts this down.
A slate of diversity plans filed by individual schools within the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will require some professors to commit to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices to gain tenure, create a new critical race center on campus, and embed diversity-based curricula throughout the university, according to plans obtained by The College Fix.
“We will identify all current classes in which race and racism are principal focuses and work with Faculty Senate and Undergraduate Council to highlight or require those classes in Vol Core,” reads the diversity division’s proposal.
The university’s libraries in their diversity plan vow to “examine library fines and fee-based services for students to determine their efficacy and equity.”
The College of Nursing proposed to “increase awareness of cultural competence through the consideration of a policy for recognition of non-Judeo-Christian holidays.”
There is one positive action item:
Perhaps the most unique proposal, however, came from the Haslam Business School, which considered programs to attract more military students as “diversity.” The school suggested implementing a Military Visit Day, enhancing promotion of current military students on the College of Business website, and creating a military recruitment video.
