When discussing the impact of the state’s DEI restrictions, Peterson told our investigator, “The biggest things we’ve had to face is some of our class titles have changed…”
According to Peterson, the coursework itself remains largely intact because accreditation standards continue requiring concepts related to diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and social justice.
She explained to our investigator: “We’re an accredited program, and so we have to teach anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion…”
She went even further.
“You can’t be a social worker without being rooted in social justice,” she claimed.
That raises an important question.
Should students be required to embrace a particular political worldview to earn a degree?
Universities should educate students, not pressure them to adopt ideological beliefs as a condition of graduation.
Yet, time and again, Accuracy in Media investigators uncover administrators explaining how DEI initiatives continue under different names, in different offices, or through curriculum requirements that lawmakers never addressed.
Kansas is not the first place we’ve found this pattern… But it should be the last.
Florida has shown that states can take meaningful action by addressing both DEI programs and the accreditation standards often used to justify them. Legislators should not allow accreditation requirements to become a loophole that keeps the same ideology in place.
That’s why we’re asking for your help today.
Please click our action alert below and send a message to the officials responsible for overseeing the state’s public universities.
If enough people speak up, Kansas can take meaningful action and ensure public universities are accountable to students, parents, and taxpayers.
— Accuracy in Media
