How Diversity Training Widens the Gulf Among the Races
By Hans Bader April 11, 2019
Two students wore blackface at the University of Tennessee in a Snapchat image with a racist caption. The University is responding by putting tens of thousands of students, faculty, and staff through sensitivity training. It may even require the 186,000 minors participating in the state’s 4-H program to attend sensitivity training. It will also require students at the University of Tennessee’s main campus in Knoxville to take classes in “global citizenship,†as a way to make them engage in racial “dialogue†and increase “understanding†of racial “differences.â€
As the Knoxville News Sentinel reports:
After the latest incident, [UT Knoxville] Chancellor Davis swung into action. As the News Sentinel reported on March 6, “immediate and ongoing†bias and sensitivity training will be put in place for faculty, staff, and administration, beginning with executive administration. “Student training†will begin in summer orientation and incorporated into First-Year Studies classes…all 29,000 UT-Knoxville students, as well as faculty and administrators, and perhaps nearly 200,000 pre-college students, are being funneled into training programs…
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2019/04/11/how-diversity-training-widens-the-gulf-among-the-races/
