Universities face controversy over far-left curriculum content

Over the past year, Fox News Digital has reported extensively on far-left curricula and courses at universities across the country, many of which have drawn pushback from conservatives and parents’ rights groups.

This month, leaked PowerPoint lessons from a freshman class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign showed far-left bias on the topic of illegal immigration, as well as race and gender, as well as materials accusing President Trump of “white supremacy.”

Fox News Digital reported in early October over another controversy in a college class at the University of Oklahoma, where a student who received a zero out of 25 on an assignment regarding gender norms said she was targeted because of her Christian beliefs, citing a scathing response from the professor’s assistant who handed out the grade.

This week the teacher’s assistant was licensed by the university.

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A young man sits at a classroom desk, covering his face with his hands as he appears stressed and overwhelmed during class. (Canart7/iStock)

At the University of Minnesota, Fox News Digital was first to report about a situation uncovered by Defending Education in which the university hosted a webpage warning of a “pandemic of whiteness” that provides “resources” on how to “stop and reverse” the problem.

“If you were born or raised in the United States, you grew up in the pandemic of whiteness and you can play a role in stopping and reversing this pandemic, especially if you are white because of the power and privilege you hold in this racialized society,” explains the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Web pagewhich is part of the Child Development Institute.

“If you were socialized into the culture of whiteness as a child, it is not your fault, but as an adult it is now your responsibility to reflect, re-educate, and take action. If you are a white adult, anti-racist action involves an ongoing process of self-reflection to develop a positive and healthy white identity while engaging in courageous anti-racist parenting/caregiving.

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The university stuck to the program, citing a “commitment to the principles of academic freedom.”

The Texas A&M University System Board of Trustees issued a statement in September, Fox News Digital reportedcalling for an audit of all of its courses after a student was allegedly kicked out of a class for questioning transgender-related course content.

In the deep red state of Arkansas, Fox News Digital reported that a public university offers an interdisciplinary writing course in its English department called “Queer Childhoods,” according to the school’s course directory.

The course focuses on “evaluating academic arguments and writing articles that argue and use scholarly sources,” says a vague description of the offering on the University of Central Arkansas website. “The course is thematic, with instructors choosing topics and choosing an interdisciplinary set of readings focused on that topic.”

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At Princeton University earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported, the school offered a course in which students studied the intersection of gender studies and what the course called the “genocide” in Gaza.

“This seminar explores genocide through gender analysis, with a central focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” states the course description on Princeton’s website. “Drawing on decolonial, indigenous, and feminist thinking, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive lives, sexual and family structures, and community survival.”

A University of North Georgia student spoke to Fox News Digital, claiming that a textbook assigned to one of her classes referred to Christianity as a “white supremacist group based in the United States.”

Kelbie Murphy, a senior at the university, paid about $100 for a textbook in her international public relations class. In Chapter 8, the opening passage reads: “An Internet search produces the following identity modifier: corporate, sexual, digital, public, racial, national, brand and even Christian (a white supremacist group based in the United States).”

“The way it was worded, it lists several marginalized groups, but then only calls Christians to be white supremacists,” Murphy told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. “But the scariest thing is that the book was written in 2007.”

Earlier this year, Fox News Digital exclusively reported that the Department of Education has awarded more than $200 million since 2021 to forty-eight universities injecting DEI content into counseling courses that include topics on anti-racism, microaggressions, white privilege, and whiteness.

Peter D’Abrosca and Preston Mizell of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.