EAST LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Despite the Trump administration wiping Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) lessons off the official syllabus, some universities are still marking up their own coursework to slip DEI requirements back into students’ schedules.
Michigan State University is one of those schools. In order for students in the education program to graduate, they must take a course called TE 101: Social Foundations of Justice & Equity in Education.
“Left-wing” concepts.
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Tim Minella with the Goldwater Institute spoke on The Steve Gruber Show on Thursday, Nov. 13. He laid out what’s being taught in those courses. “Students are being forced to take courses indoctrinating them in DEI and some of the most left-wing concepts imaginable,” Minella told Gruber. “It is chock full of race-obsessed left-wing indoctrination,” Minella said.
Required reading in the course includes Bettina Love’s book “We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom.” A description of the book on Amazon says, “Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements.”
Professional education offerings.
That’s not all. Under the “professional ed” course listings in MSU’s catalog, future teachers must also take TE 102: Pedagogy & Politics of Justice & Equity in Education. Various seminars offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels are called the “Justice and Equity Seminar.”
In addition, the MSU secondary education program designed to help prepare the next generation of high school teachers boasts “a “commitment to justice-oriented teaching.” MSU goes on to clarify that statement by saying, “We are guided by our belief that education empowers adolescents to make the world a more just place. Our program starts with social justice coursework and that focus on supporting all learners to be critical and creative actors is sustained throughout.”
Eliminate the “nonsense.”
Minella said the best way to combat the “indoctrination” is to craft effective policy at the state level, like the Freedom From Indoctrination Act. He said it keeps students from taking “nonsense” courses in order to earn their degrees.
He pointed out, “Another part of policy says you must have courses in the general education program that instructs students on basic fundamental principles of our Constitutional republic…like freedom of speech and separation of powers,” Minella said.
