The Campus Conservative

  Canada's fireworks at the 2013 Celebration of Light in Vancouver (Source: Wikipedia Commons) They changed it!  UT-Tyler has removed a provision within its strategic plan that was set to enshrine Critical Race Theory into its institutional mission. The provision that once read that the university will advance a campus climate that cultivates “justice, equity, diversity and inclusion” now reads that it will advance a climate “of equal opportunity and success” instead.  This is a huge win as it removes the institutional bias that would have entered the university's  philosophy (and then spread throughout the entire institution) as a result of this language. What Is Critical Race Theory? For those who are unfamiliar, critical race theory is the theory that white people built Western society through systematic racism to benefit white people. Therefore, the very DNA of Western institutions is racism, and the appropriate way to remove discriminatory bias from within Weste...

(Ritter Tower at The University of Texas at Tyler // Source: James Hescock) The University of Texas at Tyler (UT-Tyler) has proposed a new institutional plan that puts critical race theory at the center of its approach. The plan states that the university’s new commitments (among others) are [to advance] "a campus climate that cultivates justice, equity, diversity and inclusion” (or what's know as JEDI).  While these traditional terms sound positive, in reality, they are applications of critical race theory (CRT), a toxic ideology that claims Western society exists to benefit white people through systematic racism and that equality of outcome is a desirable goal. Sadly, CRT’s introduction into the university’s strategic plan introduces a biased ideology that corrupts the soundness of the university's judgement and makes it wholly untrustworthy with respect to its decisions. The unfortunate result is that the university’s current stakeholders—students, parents and local emp...