Texas Christian University has rebranded its DEI program, dubbing it “Finding Ourselves in Community.”
An undated document from TCU posted on the website of its accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), states:
“TCU’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), Finding Ourselves in Community (FSC), makes an important and necessary intervention in undergraduate student learning by developing students’ foundational understanding of how identities are socially constructed, how identities shape perspectives and attitudes, and how these impact relationships with others in the communities they inhabit. Finding Ourselves in Community responds to student-led, grassroots initiatives calling for a robust campus-wide reckoning with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).”
SACSCOC requires schools that it accredits to have a QEP.
TCU’s QEP, Finding Ourselves in Community, was established in 2022 as part of TCU’s 2023 application for accreditation with SACSCOC, which must be reaffirmed every 10 years.
The program’s website states, “Finding Ourselves in Community will ensure that all TCU graduates demonstrate the skills to act as equitable and inclusive members of diverse communities.” Another website page praises the more than 40 faculty members who “are leading the way in embedding Finding Ourselves In Community into their courses.”
“The new term for DEI at TCU is ‘FSC.’ FSC stands for ‘Finding Ourselves in Community.’ How nice. According to TCU’s website (https://provost.tcu.edu/qep/faqs/), the program will be in place for the next five years at least. How do we know this is DEI in disguise? To start, they took the DEI acronym, put it into the curriculum, and just changed the name,” Tarrant County Republican Chairman Bo French posted on X.
According to TCU’s website, the program aims “to strengthen as many courses as possible across campus to align with FSC learning outcomes.”
TCU offers FSC Workshops for faculty. One of the “workshop outcomes” is “Highlighting on-campus resources for students and faculty to support further professional development in DEI and how to better support our diverse student body.”
French claimed that further evidence of FSC operating as a DEI program could be found by looking at the program’s leadership team.
The list of 24 members includes TCU’s chief inclusion officer, Jonathan Benjamin-Alverado.
French also claimed that TCU was “bribing” faculty to bring DEI into their classes.
“TCU has a ‘Shared-Cost Hiring Initiative‘ that pays to recruit ‘underrepresented faculty’ to ‘achieve greater diversity in our professorial ranks.’ The Provost Office also advertises a ‘DEI Scholar Fellowship,’ which pays for scholars to do DEI work for up to two years,” French wrote on X.
French slammed TCU for its FSC program.
“Sadly, many of our once finest institutions, like TCU, have been infiltrated with cultural Marxists. These radicals are experts at using and changing language to hide their true agenda. Now that DEI has been exposed as a tactic of the racist left, they are suddenly changing the name to FSC. Don’t be fooled. The results are the same,” French told DX.
The Dallas Express contacted TCU’s Office of the Chancellor and President Chief of Staff Jean M. Pickett but did not receive a response by publication.