Diversity Training

Campus Report ^ | November 16, 2007 | Bethany Stotts

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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. In his letter, President Harker apologized only for the methods of the program, and not the ultimate goal. President Harker expressed that he was mainly concerned that “that the actual purpose [of the program] is not being fulfilled,” but maintains that he and the Vice President will develop more appropriate methods for other “residence life programs” which will “support the intellectual, cultural and ethical development of our students.” In other words, he still believes that his University’s students require ethical and social training.

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. Stephen Balch, founder of the National Association of Scholars, argues that the University of Delaware indoctrination serves as a microcosm of the obsession with diversity that has swept the higher education system. The biggest single problem in the modern university is the new “sectarian illiberal element....it’s there, it’s vocal, energized, it's true-believing...rise of the university is also the way to hold up sections of diversity... and [the situation] lately at the University of Delaware certainly is symptomatic of the power” such doctrines hold, Balch told an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) audience.

[vpintheak]

In Universities these days there is no freedom of thought, only freedom to think like us. Thought police are on the way, and have been watching you for a number of years.

[kjo]

Liberals are NAZIs

[Disambiguator]

Diversity training is really Divisiveness Training.

The only “diversity” liberals care about is skin color and sexual orientation. Other than that, they require lockstep adherence to the core principles of liberalism, or else.

[stillonaroll]

IIRC from Brit Hume’s Grapevine, there was also an anti-religion (anti-Christian, in my view) component to this “training,” whereby incorrect religious views would not be tolerated.

[Signalman]

The only “diversity” liberals care about is skin color and sexual orientation. Other than that, they require lockstep adherence to the core principles of liberalism, or else.

That is a great summation of what so-called "diversity" has come to mean in this PC country of ours. My compliments.

[JimSEA]

they require lockstep adherence to the core principles of liberalism

Unless, of course, you are a radical Muslim (Hamas, Hezballah, Jamal Islamiah, al Queda, or others of your choice -- this is all about diversity after all).