Michigan university uses $35K federal grant for diversity, inclusion course
The certificate is spearheaded by Professor Leland Harper.“While many of [other DEI programs] provide useful information, each of them focuses primarily on compliance,” Harper told The College Fix about what makes SHU’s new certificate different from those at comparable institutions.
“To me, this is the bare minimum that we should be doing – we should not just be trying to comply, and there is more that needs to be said about how and why we can foster ideas of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our society. “Simply put, the education programs that are out there, by and large, weren’t doing a good enough job of providing learners with the information they need.”Despite the early promise of SHU’s effort, the certificate training has been criticized by those who say DEI programming is ineffective at best – and “indoctrination” at worst.
“DEI certificates aren’t needed, because they aren’t about Diversity. Their purpose is to funnel noxious ideology into the university under a false flag,” Stanley Ridgley, a professor of management at Drexel University and the author of “Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities” told The College Fix.
“‘Learning about race’ and ‘Learning about cultural differences’ and ‘difficult dialogues’ are intentionally vague topics that provide wide latitude for the indoctrinations, whose purpose is to inculcate a doctrinal orthodoxy in students,” he asserted.Ridgley’s criticism is at the extreme end of a growing backlash against DEI initiatives, including some
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