The Left never misses an opportunity to spread its control over our educational institutions. That’s how it gets so many people to accept utopian ideas about the perfectly controlled society.
Community colleges exist to provide basic education and occupational training, but they also provide an opportunity for ideological indoctrination, as well as jobs for “progressives,” so they are targets. That’s the point Jonathan Butcher makes in today’s Martin Center article.
Butcher writes:
You arrive at junior college, ready to sign up for classes, and what’s on the list? “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 101.”
At Wake Tech in Raleigh, N.C., the school’s “DEI Council” is creating a course entitled “DEI 100: Introduction Course.” The council is working with all of the school’s departments to create DEI goals. They are recruiting DEI speakers to come to campus. The council is revising DEI training for college staff. The office has awarded grants to college faculty, including $5,000 to a professor for a project entitled “Creating an Engaging, Equity-Minded, Fluid and Inclusive Syllabus.” Another $5,000 was awarded to grantees who will host a “Diversity Matters: Informational Interviewing Night.”
Wake Tech used to get along just fine without any “diversity” stuff, but the leadership couldn’t say “no” to the woke crowd.
Of course, it isn’t just Wake Tech that has been infiltrated. “While these schools should be focused on improving their academic offerings and completion rates,” Butcher continues, “radical racial and ‘gender’ activists have captured whole departments and administrative offices at community colleges across the country.”
Read the whole thing.