In perhaps one of the strangest applications of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in curriculums I’ve ever seen, the University of Arizona now incorporates a class in which students are told to “live like a bug” in order to understand “marginalized” groups.
According to a new report from Timothy Minella at the Goldwater Institute, a Phoenix-based think tank, students who enroll in an entomology course at the University of Arizona are directed to “reflect in personal writing assignments on the assumptions that inform popular attitudes towards insects, identifying ways that attitudes of othering interfere with self-identity and foster systems of privilege or oppression/marginalization.”
I’ve heard some wacky and nonsensical analogies and metaphors during the countless equity trainings we were forced to slog through in the Indianapolis Public…
