At the demand of a student organization, all freshman and sophomore students at Georgia Southern University will be required to take “diversity and inclusion” courses, the details of which have yet to even be announced.
The GSU Student Government Association, the group behind the idea, postulates that the school has a problem talking about racial diversity – a problem that must be solved by forcing all students to take courses on “inclusion.”
“There is a lack of civil discourse about race, diversity, and inclusion due to a fear of backlash among faculty, staff, and students on this campus,” the resolution states, adding for effect that the school “is home to 27,459 students," of which "10,720 students identify as non-white campus-wide as of Fall 2017.”
So, because half the school’s students are non-white, everyone must now take a course to talk about their non-whiteness. Or something.
Campus Reform notes the only offered course that’s actually been added is a class called LEAD 3900, the description of which simply states, rather vaguely, “the skills that this class provides are universal and can help determine the character of the student, rather than contribute to the scholastic content.”
When Campus Reform reached out to the school to figure out what other “diversity courses” the university would be incorporating, they got an even murkier answer.
“At this time we are looking to build into both the first year and second year experience courses diversity and inclusion modules that are integrated with an array of other assignments embedded throughout both courses,” GSU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Carl Reiber told Campus Reform. “We would like to integrate diversity and inclusion throughout the curriculum to reinforce the importance of this at many levels of the curriculum. Not just a single course.”
While it’s still not known how many credit hours these “inclusion” classes would take up, Campus Reform does note that GSU’s current per-credit free stands at $177.67 per credit hour – meaning students now get to cough up anywhere between $200 and $600 per course to take a class they didn’t ask for to solve a theoretical problem the school can’t even articulate and appease social justice warriors who will never be sated.