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“In 2007, the University of Delaware’s Office of Residence Life used mandatory activities to coerce students to change their thoughts, values, attitudes, beliefs, and habits to conform to a highly specified social, environmental, and political agenda. Following FIRE’s campaign, which called the attention of the national media and the blogosphere to the Orwellian program, university President Patrick Harker terminated the program, effective immediately. This video explains the program’s invasive thought-reform activities, the horrified reactions of students and the press, and FIRE’s response. ” Professor Jan Blits, of the University of Delaware Honors Program said: “The immediate effects were to intimidate...

Diversity Training by: Bethany Stotts, November 16, 2007 In October, the University of Delaware launched a mandatory diversity reeducation program for approximately 7,000 of its students with the express intent of “treating” them for politically incorrect assumptions about race, the environment, morality, and sexuality. Not only were the students required to these attend sessions, the campus resident assistants (RA’s) were required to document student progress toward university social goals. After massive parent protests and a media campaign by the watchdog group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), University President Patrick Harker returned from China to publicly suspend the program....