Much of math is the work of dead white men. If we're going to replace literature curriculums full of dead white men with more "diverse" voices, why not replace math with diversity?
A faculty committee has proposed adding a three credit hours requirement in diversity to the general education curriculum at Wayne State University. It also recommended that WSU drop its university-wide requirement in mathematics, an idea that was carried out on June 13.
“We are proposing the creation of specific ‘Diversity’ courses, with students required to take one course in this designation,” said a document from the General Education Reform Committee, which is recalibrating what the university will expect from all students who earn a degree from the state university. It released the proposal in May.
The committee report said, “These courses will provide opportunities for students to explore diversity at the domestic level and consider the ways in which it intersects with real world challenges at the local, national and/or global level.”
But why stop there? Let's replace all the sciences with diversity. Let's even replace basic literacy with diversity. Who needs 2 + 2 or the ability to write simple sentences when we can all bask in the glorious diversity of... diversity.
There can be a diverse diversity of courses on diversity so that students can diversely come to the same conclusions at the same time and learn to think for themselves in exactly the same way.