Eastern Michigan University has come up with a novel idea. No matter what your major, you will have to pass a course in black studies (BLM 101?) in order to graduate.
“Work on the Black Student 10-Point Plan has been underway for nearly a year and progress is being made.”
“A course on Black studies will be built into the curriculum of every major. Black Student 10-Point Plan.”
“Black student leaders are working closely with faculty administrators to explore curricular options to” force “black studies.”
“There are well-understood challenges in attempting to incorporate black studies into every major. For example, it may be difficult to incorporate black studies into certain natural science majors.”
Black students currently represent 18 percent of the student body at Eastern Michigan.
Interestingly, Eastern Michigan’s “Africology & African Studies faculty” is exempt from the plan to have the racial compositions of faculty in each department mirror the racial composition of the student population.
In the fall of 2016, “13 percent of new faculty hired” “self-identify as Black.”
Other aspects of the Eastern Michigan’s 11-pointed “Black Student 10-Point Plan” involve a plan to force all students to complete “a general course on race, ethnicity, and racism” and a plan to create a “designated space where marginalized students can gather safely and learn about financial and academic resources available to Black students.”
Also, under the 11-pointed “Black Student 10-Point Plan,” members of the Black Student Union will now be organizing a special, segregated “Black Homecoming.”
I wouldn’t have a problem with this were it a private university but they should not be funded by state and federal tax dollars.