OU has a DEI problem

 American Action News:

Oklahoma’s largest university may be defying the state’s governor by requiring future teachers to take racially charged coursework, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In December 2023, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed an executive order declaring that the institutions of higher education cannot “mandate any person to participate in, listen to, or receive any education, training, activities, procedures or programming to the extent such education … grants preference based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin over another’s.” The University of Oklahoma requires undergraduates studying education to take a course that portrays white people as complicit in institutional racism and instructs them to give special treatment to minority students, according to a class syllabus obtained by the DCNF.

“Our universities need to be preparing students for the workforce, not indoctrinating them with liberal ideology,” a spokesperson for the governor’s office told the DCNF. “It’s insane that this is a required course. It’s time to look at the accreditation entities that are pushing courses like this and bring common sense back to the classroom.”

The course, which has the innocuous title “Schools and American Culture,” assigns roughly one-third of students’ total grade for the development of a “social justice curriculum” and encourages them to consider how they can work toward “centering the needs, histories and realities of marginalized and minority populations,” according to the syllabus.

During the fourth week of the class, students are required to learn about “critical whiteness in education” as well as critical race theory. Critical whiteness is a field of study that aims to “reveal the invisible structures that produce and reproduce white supremacy and privilege” and “examines the meaning of white privilege and white privilege pedagogy, as well as how white privilege is connected to complicity in racism,” according to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
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I am pretty sure that OU does not use racial quotas on its sports teams.  There they are more likely to judge talent on their merits and not identity politics.  They should do the same when it comes to academics. 

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