In 2025, students will be required to take classes on “power buildings behind cultural differences.”
Gettysburg College is incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in its education and emphasizing candidates for university positions who contribute to its necessary “race, power, and capital” courses.
This is “another attempt to push certain social beliefs on kids,” according to a professor of public policy who spoke to The College Fix.
Starting in the fall of 2025, all Gettysburg students” will get a program that considers the administrative, fundamental, and social components of civilization, power, and inequity”, according to the school’s description of the novel curriculum.
The information states that the course “examines power structures that underlie cultural differences beyond the recognition of cultural differences.”
According to one professor, this is not unusual.
There has been a growing fad throughout academia to stay relevant on some issues that most Americans aren’t really worried about on a daily basis, according to Terris Todd. He serves as the director of outreach for Project 21, a project funded by the National Center for Public Policy Research that advances African Americans ‘ positions on the importance of personal accountability.
Todd told The College Fix:
” The issue of civilization, power, and ownership can only be truly addressed by someone who has no discrimination at all ( which is hard to find ) or by learners having real-life experiences themselves. Why make the training required? Because the school staff is aware that not all students will find this lessons to be interesting, they should take it. This appears to be another attempt to impose certain political ideologies on students who are usually uninterested or uneasy with these subjects.
According to an email reviewed by The Fix, the university’s Provost Office may be “giving fat in the next round of tenure-track university hiring to the potential for new university to lead courses to the competition, power, and equity component of the new Gettysburg curriculum.”
In the 2025-26 academic year, the Provost’s Office will “partner with]the ] Chief Diversity Officer to hold orientation sessions within faculty committees on the importance of bias awareness during their decision-making work”, according to the email.
Todd told The Fix this isn’t uncommon. Colleges and universities are known to employ faculty who conform to their own ideologies. This is done to make it much simpler for students to keep a narrative alive and take center stage on their campuses,” he said.
He said that while they have the freedom to do so, he would warn against doing it “in an academic setting because it’s a clear sign that the school doesn’t really support the diversity of thought.”
They prefer to have a “professional” in compliance rather than someone to challenge their divisive pedagogy, Todd said.
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In the same vein, a Gettysburg College student who wished to remain anonymous admitted to The Fix that it is inappropriate to hire faculty based on their ability to advance a particular ideology.
The student claimed that including DEI in the curriculum” will not positively affect the campus culture or the student’s education.”
” Certain rhetoric and forced dialogue” could cause resentment where it did not exist before, the student said.
Unless the school’s objective is to make” white students…feel bad”, DEI in curriculum is not “going to have the effect” the school intends, he said.
The student also told The Fix that Gettysburg, a private college in Pennsylvania, currently has two required diversity credits. Students must complete one course listed under” Global Understanding” and another under” Conceptualizing Diversity”.
Following a probable race hoax where a student allegedly tattooed the n-word on a peer’s chest as a prank, The Fix previously reported.
Not long after the “likely hate crime hoax”, the “new DEI programming at Gettysburg College” was announced, The Fix also reported.
Students will soon be required to take a course that develops “analytical and reflective abilities to help them understand how cultural worldview frameworks are developed and increase their cultural self-awareness,” according to Gettysburg’s new curriculum description.
The school’s official” Diversity Statement” reads that Gettysburg’s “perspective on diversity and inclusion is grounded” in its” core values”.
Further, the school is” committed to providing a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment because it enhances the educational experience for all students.”
The College Fix reached out to Gettysburg’s Deputy Chief Communications and Marketing Officer Mike Baker, Vice President for College Life Anne Ehrlich, Chief Diversity Officer Eloísa Gordan-Mora, Provost Jamila Bookwala, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and President Robert Iuliano for comment via multiple emails in the last two weeks. Questions about the motivations behind the new DEI initiatives were not answered.
The Fix also reached out to Zach Monroe, the director of marketing for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, and the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, but neither of them responded.
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