At least 236 U.S. colleges mandate some form of critical race theory-based training for students, faculty, and staff, according to a report based on a database of 520 colleges.
The website criticalrace.org, a project of the nonprofit foundation Legal Insurrection, has compiled information on “race-related” training at the 520 colleges and universities — less than a year after the project launched.
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The project found 236 colleges “mandate race-related training and study, sometimes calling it CRT, but more often using euphemisms like ‘antiracism’ or ‘equity.’”
Critical race theory, or CRT, asserts U.S. institutions are systemically racist and oppressive to racial minorities. Antiracism and equity are common terms to refer to actions required to oppose systemic racism.
The creator of the database, William Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell University, told Fox News the research “shows how race has become a pervasive focus in higher education with a near universal insistence that racism is systemic in the United States.”
“Higher ed is focused on what divides people, exacerbating rather than solving problems,” Jacobson told the outlet.
In a post on the Legal Insurrection foundation blog, Jacobson noted that “viewing the U.S. as systemically racist is not up for debate on most campuses, the door has been shut to honest intellectual inquiry.”
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“The element of mandates and coercion negatively affects free expression,” Jacobson wrote. “When a university adopts, and particularly when it imposes, a single viewpoint, the door to free expression closes.”
