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TCU is rebranding DEI, bribing professors to put DEI into their classes, and students are receiving full-ride scholarships for supporting DEI.
The new term for DEI at TCU is "FSC." FSC stands for "Finding Ourselves in Community." How nice. According to TCU's website, the program will be in place for the next five years at least. How do we know this is DEI in disguise? To start, they took the DEI acronym, put it into the curriculum, and just changed the name.
The school says that the new "FSC" plan will be implemented into the Core Curriculum classes and as many other classes as possible. They are even bribing professors with $2,000 to bring the DEI curriculum into classes! The FAQ for the new program suggests that DEI should be added especially to lower-level classes - presumably so they can indoctrinate students at a younger age.
Professors are required to attend workshops to receive the money. What does the school expect professors to learn from these new "FSC" workshops? In this explainer, they expressly say that professors should "highlight resources for students and faculty to support further professional development in DEI." Professional development? It sounds like the school is now paying professors to recruit students into leftwing activism. As we keep reporting on the rampant leftism at TCU, it appears things are getting worse.
The 5 year program has a leadership team, listed here. A brief look at the list will confirm that this is in fact a DEI program. The list includes the University "Chief Inclusion Officer," and also the Director of the "Office of Diversity and Inclusion," following a new trend of dropping the "E" in DEI. For the next 5 years, these are the people paying off professors to implement DEI into their classes and indoctrinate students.
It may seem strange that they are bribing faculty into bringing DEI into their classes, especially when you look into their DEI hiring initiatives - it's surprising at this point that they even need to incentivize professors, given their commitment to diversity hiring. Here are some of those initiatives.
TCU has a "Shared-Cost Hiring Initiative" that pays to recruit "underrepresented faculty" to "achieve greater diversity in our professorial ranks." The Provost Office also advertises a "DEI Scholar Fellowship," which pays for scholars to do DEI work for up to two years.
In addition to increasing the number of DEI hires among TCU faculty, they have also decided that non-DEI professors will have to share the work of DEI faculty. On this page, they lay out their "Faculty Workload Equity Model." The idea behind it is that there is "inequity" even among the amount of work professors do and that the school needs to make professors share the workload. In a direct nod to the low quality of DEI scholarship, the program claims to focus on "quantity rather than quality." Surely parents of TCU students would be upset to know that a school that costs nearly $300,000 for a 4-year degree is lowering its emphasis on "quality" in professors' work.
Speaking of the absurd $300,000 price tag for a TCU education - the school is not only paying off professors to support its radical political program. TCU offers a STEM Scholarship Program, which sounds harmless enough. On their website, however, they admit that one of the criteria to apply for the program is "a personal commitment to diversity and inclusion." What does this scholarship offer? Nothing more than a full-ride scholarship that covers four years of tuition. TCU is paying off students to support DEI at the cost of $300,000 per person. The scholarship also includes a 4-week summer "enrichment" experience, as well as "educational travel and study abroad." Someone should tell the faculty they're getting a raw deal.
Given the lowering of standards and TCU's new requirement that classes teach DEI, it's no surprise that they've made the SAT and ACT optional for admissions.
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