From the Chronicle of Higher Education: In what’s becoming a familiar exercise, the Kansas Board of Regents just spent weeks wrestling over how to define “diversity, equity, and inclusion/critical race theory” content that cannot be part of required courses under a new state law. The final definition... leaves substantial room for discussions about race in public university classrooms, while still raising prickly questions about what faculty can and can’t teach. Discussions among Kansas education leaders had focused on how exactly to expel certain presentations of “DEI” content and systemic racism from mandatory courses. The final policy was broadened to cover a wider range of courses, in part a nod to lawmakers’ intent, while also narrowing the scope with explicit carveouts for teaching about race.
Under the initial proposal, presented to the board by its general counsel John Yeary in May, the “CRT” element of the restriction on “DEI-CRT-related content” encompassed “content that defines a conceptual framework, as the single and authoritative lens, establishing racism to be systemic within laws, policies, or institutions.” The final version instead defines CRT material as “content that presents racism as systemic within laws, policies, or institutions and promotes acceptance of that viewpoint rather than presenting it as a subject of scholarly, historical, or legal study.” Then there are caveats: “Discussions of race, racism, or the history of the civil rights movement” do not in themselves meet that definition...
Full story at https://www.chronicle.com/article/professors-can-teach-about-race-in-kansas-if-they-follow-these-rules.
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