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The University of Chicago's Department of English Is Accepting Only Applicants Interested in Working in and With Black Studies
The University of Chicago's English department has outlined its new admissions policy for the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle. The only people they are interested in talking to are people who are studying, what was their term, Black Studies? Oh, yeah, it's Black Studies. This isn't just a spectacular miscarriage of academic integrity, but it is happening in a most unfortunate place because this is the University of Chicago. If there were a disagreement, you know, if 60% of American universities were falling prey to this and 40% were not, we'd be in a very different situation.