George Mason and Virginia Commonwealth Universities have submitted their syllabi for courses about diversity, equity, inclusion and race to Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera for review at the request of
A mandated curriculum long sought by Virginia Commonwealth students and faculty members was set to take effect this fall. The university delayed it late last month, and advocates don’t buy its reasoning for doing so. In 2019, the chair of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of African American Studies asked a panel of four Virginia college and university presidents whether their institutions required a course on race and racism. None said yes. And the chair, Mignonne C. Guy, received a public request from her own president.
Students and staff staged a successful campaign for a “racial literacy” course requirement at VCU until the administration nixed its plan at the 11th hour.
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Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesHundreds of professors and students at Virginia Commonwealth University have penned an angry letter targeting the school’s administration after its sudden decision to nix a “racial literacy” class requirement—calling the move an act of “blatant institutional racism.”VCU claimed that it was on the edge of making history as one of the country’s first institutions of higher education to require students to take such courses, until school o