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Charlotte Johnson on the Curriculum
Chris Clark ‘14 has a post on the Dartmouth Afro-American Society Facebook page in which he quotes a response from Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson to his e-mail “about the race and gender class as well as the administrations response to racial bias incidences”:
“As you may or may not know, we are moving forward with a coalition focused on actions that will positively impact the campus climate. A distributive requirement or some sort of mandatory course focused on diversity and inclusion has been suggested and is being considered. Other ideas will be considered as well, and some will be easier and more quickly implemented than others.” [Emphasis added]
Maybe my satirical post about a “candlelight vigil on the Green in support of diversity” was more on the money than I thought. Would a course “focused on diversity and inclusion” be anything more than ten weeks of sensitivity training?
That said, Dean Johnson has a long row to hoe before she can make changes to the distributive requirements in the curriculum. The faculty will see to that — though maybe this new course will not be taught by professors at all, but rather by enlightened administrators like Dean Johnson? Either way, it would be a new low for the College.
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