The Goldwater Institute (GI) issued a report last week revealing that Honors Colleges at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Arizona (UA) are “forc[ing] DEI on students.” Arizona voters passed Proposition 107 in 2010, which banned affirmative action and quotas in government and colleges.
GI said, “Barrett, The Honors College” at ASU and the W. A. Franke Honors College at UA have been transformed into vehicles of faculty activism no longer in line with the interests of students, taxpayers, or even the leaders of these institutions.”
GI said the faculty at Barrett “infused their mandatory introductory honors course sections with ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ content, including anti-Israeli, anti-capitalist, and sexually explicit ‘LGBTQ’ material.” One syllabus instructed students to put their pronouns on name cards. Another instructor assigned “Postcolonial Love Poem, a book that explores ‘the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people’ and declares that America is ‘predicated [on] the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like [the author’s].’”
The think tank’s review of educational materials found, “Over 70% of all Barrett course sections for the mandatory ‘The Human Event’ (HON 272) reviewed by Goldwater pushed DEI content.”
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