{"id":115807,"date":"2021-02-02T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115807"},"modified":"2021-02-02T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T19:27:04","slug":"tulane-university-to-host-event-on-decolonizing-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulane-university-to-host-event-on-decolonizing-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulane University To Host Event On \u2018Decolonizing Study Abroad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftulane-university-to-host-event-on-decolonizing-study-abroad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tulane University will host an event entitled \u201cDecolonizing Study Abroad\u201d on Thursday as part of the school\u2019s \u201cequity speaker series.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic-equity.tulane.edu\/content\/equity-speaker-series\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hosted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the university\u2019s Center of Academic Equity, which promotes programming on equity and social issues. The department has emphasized other Leftist-preferred topics such as immigration and women\u2019s issues specifically in its past programming. It previously hosted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic-equity.tulane.edu\/content\/equity-speaker-series\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">events<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on how students at Dartmouth College confronted \u201canti-immigrant sentiment in their library catalog\u201d and a separate event combating then-candidate Donald Trump\u2019s narrative about America\u2019s southern border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In light of the coronavirus pandemic, programming has been limited to small on-campus gatherings or grab-and-go literature. Tulane\u2019s \u201cDecolonizing Study Abroad\u201d program is a grab-and-go program, which will provide resources that emphasize \u201cequity in study abroad\u201d and literature about decolonization and support for minority and LGBTQ students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tulane University senior Rachel Altman told The Daily Wire she thinks that these seminars are created to persuade students to embrace &#8220;woke orthodoxy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Education should be about giving students information,&#8221; Altman said. &#8220;These programs, which present a very specific point of view on social justice, as if it&#8217;s settled fact, are the antithesis of the ideal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the police-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, Tulane\u2019s campus has been infiltrated by critical race theory, which claims that America is irredeemably racist. The school\u2019s diversity, equity, and inclusion office has frequently promoted materials designed by critical race theory pedagogy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a powerpoint presentation obtained by The Daily Wire, the diversity, equity, and inclusion office said that having a \u201csense of urgency,\u201d \u201cobjectivity,\u201d and the \u201cright to comfort\u201d were tenets of white supremacy in the workplace. The presentation claimed that it was a white supremacist value to believe \u201cthat there is such thing as being objective.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tulane administrators also sympathize with the campus&#8217;s most radical students, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1yWMA7klVbEVZrHPssqSk7gAoTT58GYRztWfbQNhVbXU\/edit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">demand<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that the school institute a $15 minimum wage and divest from fossil fuels before returning to on-campus learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The university and the Office of Study Abroad did not return requests for comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decolonizing Study Abroad presentations are not new to academia, nor are they specific to Tulane University. Arizona State University\u2019s study abroad office partnered with its Diversity and Inclusion team to present on study abroad programs and the history of \u201cperpetuating systemic inequities and neo-colonialism.\u201d The programming description encourages students to engage in left-wing activism while abroad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMany people are engaged in activism, from the Black Lives Matter movement to Pride,\u201d the description for the Arizona program <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.asu.edu\/content\/decolonizing-study-abroad-taking-ethical-activism-local-global\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cThis workshop will detail some considerations to engage in these important movements in another cultural context, having brave conversations with individuals from another culture, and how to continue to support your local community while away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of Minnesota hosted a similar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/umabroad.umn.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Decolonizing%20Education%20Abroad_Martha%20Johnson.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">seminar<\/span><\/a>, as did<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kent State University, which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/video.kent.edu\/media\/1_uu9owpe3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">claimed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that more white students participating in study abroad was an example of inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulane University will host an event entitled \u201cDecolonizing Study Abroad\u201d on Thursday as part of the school\u2019s \u201cequity speaker series.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The event is hosted by the university\u2019s Center of Academic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892475,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4867,4864,4863,4866,4860,4861],"class_list":["post-115807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abroad","tag-event","tag-host","tag-study","tag-tulane","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}