ASU Decolonizes the Classroom

Institute for Humanities Research

ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research is holding an event to explain how to decolonize the classroom. The event assumes that it is good to decolonize the classroom. No alternative viewpoints are offered.

A quick look at the IHR event listings shows that they regularly offer far-left events but have no conservative events. This might be due to the composition of ASU’s faculty. If the IHR pulls its speakers from ASU, the faculty is overwhelmingly leftist. But that is no excuse as the IHR regularly brings in speakers but apparently makes no effort to have an intellectually diverse field.

ASU has no plan for addressing the lack of intellectual diversity. Administrators at ASU are outspoken about plans for other kinds of diversity. But these administrators themselves are on the far-left side of the political spectrum and so have no interest in increasing conservatives at ASU. Only outside accountability from either ABOR or the state legislature will change this.

The humanities are especially hard hit by the lack of intellectual diversity. And the IHR is a good source of evidence for this. Parents and students interested in hearing multiple perspectives will be greatly disappointed by the humanities at ASU. These professsors are not even able to articlate the conseravtive or Christian viewpoint on topics of cultural debate without resorting to insults and straw men.

Parents, students, donors, and legislators, be informed about the condition of the humanities at ASU.