Campus Reform | UChicago considers entire academic department for 'critical race' studies

Campus Reform | UChicago considers entire academic department for 'critical race' studies

• UChicago considers entire academic department for 'critical race' studies
• The University of Chicago is considering the creation of a new critical race studies department.
• The provost awarded funding to a group that will present a formal proposal.

"The University of Chicago is considering the creation of a critical race studies department and is funding an effort to look into creating the new academic unit. 

...As Campus Reform reported in October, a group of faculty members initiated a diversity strike, during which faculty members pledged not to participate or collaborate in university-sponsored diversity initiatives until their demands were met. 

..."Alongside an adequately funded and autonomous Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, effective teaching and research on race at the University of Chicago requires a Department of Critical Race Studies. It is, in fact, extraordinary that we should have to articulate this as a demand in 2020," the letter stated...Read all.