Universities prioritize their racial politics over academics

Published June 10, 2021 4:00am ET



In recent years, universities have begun to prioritize promulgating their highly progressive racial politics over instilling students with the appropriate academic knowledge. Colleges, particularly elite colleges, have instituted policies, course requirements, and programs designed to inculcate students with radical, left-leaning values often centered on race and racism.

While professors endorsing the idea that the nation’s infrastructure is inherently racist and berating students for supporting police is concerning, what’s more worrisome are university-level policies that propagate harmful and divisive narratives such as critical race theory and implicit bias. Most large universities have courses centered on these topics, and an increasing number of colleges require students to take such courses to graduate.

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