Bates College Considers Requiring All Students to Take Courses on ‘White Supremacy,’ ‘Power and Privilege,’ ‘Colonialism’

A curricular working group of students and faculty at Bates College is recommending that all students should be required to take two courses that center around “race, white supremacy and colonialism, and intersecting experiences of power and privilege.”

To justify the recommendation, the working group asserts that an “essential part of liberal arts education” is to “critically discern, examine, and discuss the production and operation of difference, power, and equity.”

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