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CT State Community College has a requirement that students must enroll within their first nine credits in a course called College and Career Success–CCS 1001.
It's described as a course that "prepares students for success" and teaches "essential academic skills" and ends with students creating their own academic plan.
Seems pretty innocuous until you find out that one of the assignments, worth 125 points, requires students to complete a "social identity profile."
The profile asks first for a student's gender identity, as if that's the most important thing to "college and career success" for young people today.
It goes on to ask students to explain what gives them "power and privilege in society" and what makes them "feel marginalized or disregarded in society."
The College and Career Success requirement was pitched back in June 2020 to help improve abysmal completion rates, thereby helping to "bring greater equity" to CSCU schools.
The premise was that students would benefit from establishing a career path as well as learning the academic and personal skills required to be successful students and employees.
The recommendation included a "core diversity requirement" and an acknowledgement that "diversity" should be "embedded throughout the General Education core and across the curriculum."
So that means students are expected to develop a better understanding of their personal values, biases, assumptions and perspectives (hence the "social identity profile"), and then learn to "appreciate" those of others so they can "live and work in diverse societies."
While that might sound nice in theory, in practice critical race theory teaches students to think about things like skin color, sex and gender before doing anything. It tells them to consider whether they have "power and privilege" or if they are in a "marginalized" class before making decisions. It makes students feel self conscious, anxious and depressed. It teaches victimhood, and ends up hurting students far more than it helps.
Just listen to this video below that describes the impact this kind of teaching has had on students.
Students are taught to report anyone who "offends" them.
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) January 7, 2025
Universities even provide hotlines.
The @CoddlingMovie points out how that hurts students.
Here are a few students’ experiences with campus indoctrination: pic.twitter.com/Ypmku3GXUJ
By the way, the CT State Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion first opened in September 2021.
The discussion about equity at CSCU began "in earnest" in the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd, much like it did in scores of colleges, universities and K-12 schools throughout the country... essentially a Marxist take-over of education.
And like so many others, CT State issued an equity statement that talked about addressing "structural racism" and using educators as "anti-racist institutional change agents."
By August 2020 the CSCU Equity Council was established to "address systemic forms of oppression" and to ensure that DEI would be embedded throughout the culture of all Connecticut state colleges and universities.
The "work" subsequently included anti-racist training and professional development for faculty, administrators and staff, along with the development of new policies, recruiting goals, and so forth.
Of course, "anti-racism" isn't actually "against racism" as the term implies. It's doublespeak. "Anti-racism" actually encourages "future racism" to atone for "past racism" per Ibram X. Kendi, who coined the term.
"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." -- Ibram X. Kendi
Trump has pledged to dismantle diversity programs that he says amount to discrimination, and he's vowed to eliminate wasteful administrative positions that drive up costs and remove all DEI bureaucrats from American colleges and universities.
That will be no small undertaking at CSCU by the looks of it.
