Students Who Blew Whistle On BYU Revealing Whiteness Assignment Threatened With Discipline
A professor at Brigham Young University (BYU), in Provo, Utah, recently assigned a Revealing Whiteness assignment to a 100-level Sociology course. The resulting controversy has pitted conservative students against activist academic staff. One professor has threatened the students that posted the lesson to social media with severe punishment under BYU s student conduct rules.
While this type of controversy over wokeness in reliably red Utah may come as a surprise to some, the state s higher education system has begun to mandate lessons based in Critical Race Theory (CRT) for all colleges and universities operating in the state.
This should not be all that surprising. Some institutions, such as the LDS church, and to a lesser extent (i.e., a more woke extent) the Roman Catholic Church, tend to follow what the culture is doing generally. But I think, perhaps too optimistically, that the culture is changing, and none too soon. It could still be quite a while, like ten years, but I think things are changing, and the young will change first.