“Reference is to a University of North Carolina System memorandum issued to UNC chancellors announcing that ‘all general education requirements and major-specific requirements mandating completion of course credits related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or any other topic identified in Section VII of the [UNC System] Equality Policy are suspended’ (p. 2).” Read the full critique here, written by the NC Conference of the AAUP and published in Academe Blog.
COMMENTARY: “The Document’s Authoritarian Echoes are Hard to Ignore”
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