Oklahoma’s largest university may be defying the state’s governor by requiring future teachers to take racially charged coursework, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
In December 2023, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed an executive order declaring that the institutions of higher education cannot “mandate any person to participate in, listen to, or receive any education, training, activities, procedures or programming to the extent such education … grants preference based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin over another’s.” The University of Oklahoma requires undergraduates studying education to take a course that portrays white people as complicit in institutional racism and instructs them to give special treatment to minority students, according to a class syllabus obtained by the…
