Friday, September 25, 2015

Massive diversity requirement planned for University of Missouri, taught by 'army' of TAs

Massive diversity requirement planned for University of Missouri, taught by 'army' of TAs - The College Fix:
Guaranteed jobs program for women and gender studies, black studies and others
The University of Missouri is working on a “diversity requirement” that could be imposed on all 6,000 freshmen and require “an army” of teaching assistants (TAs) to implement, by the reckoning of the committee developing it.
Its aim? To socially engineer students to think and behave in certain ways related to race and culture, and have its TAs “export” the program to other universities when they get faculty jobs.
...The proposal is unabashed in its aims: not only changing how students think and behave, but making its participating TAs “extremely marketable” for future faculty positions where they will “export the program,” and having “a massive influence on undergraduate education, and even high school education, throughout the country.”
It would resemble a congressional appropriation that crosses several districts, creating a small but vocal group of beneficiaries that advocates for the program’s continued funding.
The proposal envisions the diversity requirement as a massive jobs program that will prop up departments across the university.
Because the College of Education likely doesn’t have enough TAs to supply on its own, the program would need to recruit TAs in sociology, anthropology, women and gender studies, black studies, philosophy, political science, German and Russian studies “and beyond...”

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