The Republicans of the Congress representing Tennessee are harshly criticizing a plan at Memphis University to offer financial grants to faculty members who include equity and social justice in their courses curricula.
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The Senator Marsha Blackburn said that the subsidy program puts taxpayers' dollars towards "an aroused social justice agenda".
"The University should encourage its students to be independent thinkers, expanding their cosmovision, learning to be lifelong and respectful apprentices of all," said Blackburn in a statement to Fox News.
"Leadership at Memphis University must be ashamed to bribe teachers to advance this useless teaching," said US representative. UU Tennessee Tim Burchett Al Washington. Free lighthouse "Students are better prepared for professional careers if they learn all three R'S-reading, writing and arithmetic, instead of activating activism." googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp-ad- article_in_article"););
A spokesman for Memphis University did not respond to repeated requests for comments.
Coverage of the means of controversy on subsidies was initiated by politically conservative news outputs with which legislators spoke. It comes at a time when federal and state republican legislators throughout the country are fighting efforts to address capital and social justice problems in higher education as a result of the Racial Justice Movement caused by George Floyd's police murders , Breonna Taylor and other unarmed blacks. Americans is also happening within the context of the debates regarding the teaching of critical theory of race.
However, efforts are widely supported among higher leaders.
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Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Teachers, held the initiative.
"Any effort to promote justice and equality in higher education and in society must be applauded" Mulvey told himself in a statement to the interior of ED Superior. "Initiatives like this at the University of Memphis, who encourage them and allows the faculty to take a fresh aspect to their own topic and see it through a social justice lens, they are essential if higher education is to fulfill their promise as a good Public Curriculums who treat "whiteness as the norm" for years, and the sum offered to faculty members as a curriculum redesign incentive is a small investment compared.
"We have excluded both black history, black contributions, Latinx's story, Latinx contributions, the Native Americans of the Curriculum," she said. "Now we have to provide to repair that omission."
