Kansas passed a law that prohibits state universities from requiring students to enroll in a “DEI-CRT” course. So, the Board of Regents needed to clarify the meaning.
The Board of Regents concluded that required classes could not intentionally establish and promote the preferential treatment of groups based on race, color, gender, ethnicity or national origin, nor the theory of racism being systemic within laws, policies or institutions. Those topics could be present as subjects of scholarly, historical or legal study.
This KC Star article about this law catalogues the concerns of faculty, administrators, etc. that the law could stifle academic freedom and proper discussion of these topics.
I posted the following comment, which was the first comment posted: "There seems to be a clear distinction between even-handed discussion and "promotion". While I like FIRE's position, most of our nation's colleges and universities have been teaching slanted political education for decades and discouraging free political speech, as FIRE has documented. The academics are using "academic freedom" cries to defend their abuse of academic freedom. I'd be delighted if the universities and colleges offered a better way than this law to correct the bias in their education. In this article, they did not do so."
What do you think?
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