Georgetown Center Requires Work-Study Students to Attend ‘White Supremacy’ Training

Georgetown University students who participate in the taxpayer-funded work-study program are required to participate in a “microaggressions” training in order to work at the institution’s Center for Social Justice.

Campus Reform first reported on the requirement this week. Its report notes that the Catholic university’s center employs about 200 undergraduates every academic year, many through Federal Work-Study.

In order to work at the center, students are “required” to participate in its “Critical Conversations on Race,” according to its website.

The training aims “to help Georgetown students build awareness, knowledge, and skills to take action grounded in racial and social justice,” the center states.

Session topics include “white supremacy culture,” “microaggressions and triggers,” “ implicit bias and privilege,” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The training also “provide[s] a solid foundational understanding” of issues such as “racial identity and cultural humility,” “defining and identifying the differences between individual, interpersonal, and institutionalized racism,” and “safe space,” according to the center website.

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