{"id":5010,"date":"2023-08-18T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:03:00","slug":"california-professors-sue-to-block-dei-teaching-and-tenure-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5010","title":{"rendered":"California professors sue to block DEI teaching and tenure mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-93.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5011\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-93.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-93.png 750w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-93-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-93-293x220.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-93-390x293.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The entrance to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/headquarters\">headquarters<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Community_Colleges\">California Community Colleges<\/a>\u00a0at 1102 Q Street in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/downtown\">downtown<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sacramento,_California\">Sacramento<\/a>. This building is also home to the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement of the California Department of Justice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, better known as FIRE, filed a lawsuit on behalf of six California community college professors to stop statewide regulations adopted in March of 2023 requiring they \u201cespouse and teach politicized conceptions of \u2018diversity, equity, and inclusion.\u2019 &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These new regulations amended Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations to include diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility standards in the evaluation and tenure review of employees. According to the lawsuit, this means the more than 54,000 professors who teach within the California community college system will be required to include \u201canti-racist\u201d perspectives into their teaching. Professors not only would have to write diversity statements and develop \u201cknowledge of the intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that people from different racial, ethnic and other minoritized groups face,\u201d but their performance and tenure would even be evaluated on their commitment and promotion of this viewpoint.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite promoting the inclusion of minority voices, the state also warns professors not to \u201cweaponize academic freedom\u201d to \u201cinflict curricular trauma on our students,\u201d suggesting, according to plaintiff Loren Palsgaard, a professor of English at Madera Community College, that mandated viewpoints would not be able to be balanced by competing beliefs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHearing uncomfortable ideas is not \u2018curricular trauma,\u2019 and teaching all sides of an issue is not \u2018weaponizing\u2019 academic freedom,\u201d said Palsgaard. \u201cThat\u2019s just called \u2018education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a state-published glossary of DEI terms, California claims color-blindness is a problem because it \u201cperpetuates existing racial inequities and denies systematic racism\u201d and that merit \u201cupholds race-based structural inequality\u201d and \u201cprotects White privilege under the guise of standards.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the body responsible for approving these new regulations, is a 17-member body appointed by the governor and approved by the state Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/article_ba76a818-3d4f-11ee-8ecc-cb3aca11c56f.html\">https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/article_ba76a818-3d4f-11ee-8ecc-cb3aca11c56f.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, better known as FIRE, filed a lawsuit on behalf of six California community college professors to stop statewide regulations adopted in March of 2023 requiring they \u201cespouse and teach politicized conceptions of \u2018diversity, equity, and inclusion.\u2019 &#8220; These new regulations amended Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations to include diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility standards in the evaluation and tenure review of employees. 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