

EDUC 290: Cultural Diversity and Advocacy was a two-credit course at Grove City College. It may no longer be taught at the college due to the recent anti-woke report from a special committee of the Board of Trustees. Get up to speed here.
Cedric Lewis, a “guest lecturer” at Grove City, taught the course. He is now commenting on Twitter about the board’s recommendation to drop the course and the events surrounding it.
When I arrived at GCC there were a total 6 black professors and staff members. Today, there is myself in the classroom, an assistant A.D. and an assistant resident life director. For most of my time here, I have been the only black professor or one of up to three.
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
My background is in law and business. I teach primarily in the Entrepreneurship Department, initially teaching legal studies courses and teaching courses in music business, marketing and legal aspects of music as well as business law.
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
image, to ignore the plight, pain and injustice to our fellow man, is to do those things to Lord. As such, in all of my courses, I teach and talk with my students about scripture, about my lived experience with these issues and how they as young Christians, as we all are, are
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
conversation with. Ever.
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
That gives context. Now to the Grove City College’s Trustees Special Committee Report. I have withheld public comment, because well first I needed to process. Secondly, I wanted to have a face to face conversation with President McNulty before doing so.
t is the opinion of and all of the Trustees and that they are in total agreement with it. I know for a fact that’s not the case and I do not want my comments to reflect on the whole for the actions of a few. We await the full Board’s actions and comments.
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
It has been said by
the very courtrooms that several of the committee members preside over. And certainly, as Christians, we should be held to and seek an even higher standard. The report finds as fact or instance the CRT, or as they termed it “pop- CRT” is taught in my course. How did they
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
and concerns in writing. Several former students have done the same. None of this information was considered or acknowledge by the committee in their fact-finding role.
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
They interviewed or more appropriately interrogated myself, my co-professor and the chair of the Education
questioning revolved on are attempts to have me defend CRT. I don’t teach CRT. Several questions arose about cherry picked sentences from one of the assigned books, How To Be An Anti-Racist. When pressed by and others about the details of that book, it very evident that none of
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
read them would know). Nor had they apparently reviewed the over 40 additional readings that are assigned in the course, all offering differing viewpoints on the topics. Those readings are referenced in the report by the way. Several comments were made during my questioning that
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
stand by my teaching as scripture based, not CRT based with I haven’t even thought about since law school over 20 years ago, until now. So, it became very clear to me and everyone that was interviewed that none of this was centered on theological concerns, but on political
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
several books, along with dozens of additional readings, articles, videos, etc., all offering various views on the topics. The student engage in open discussion with one another. When asked I share my lived experience on the topics and in my case, never every class, involves a
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
they can express their views and ask questions without fear of being ostracized in some way, all of the discussions are designed and proctored by the students themselves. A strange way to “indoctrinate” in my opinion.
— Cedric Lewis JD, MBA (@whbizlaw) April 27, 2022
I have much more to say, specifically as it relates to
It is hard to follow the thread after this tweet, but you can explore on your own here.
CRT must be a powerful conception. If students are exposed to it, or anything even close to it they will immediately fall for it. So any hint of it must be excluded from the curriculum.
I’d like to be in Professor Louis’ class.
This is modern “McCarthyism”. What a great professor. I would love his class.
It’s shocking that the Board of Trustees did not visit Lewis’s class. The class seems as if it was dropped based on the reading list.
What “various views” were listed in the course reading list? Were they supplementary readings? What exactly was required? None of the tweets seem to say that beyond a veiled reference to Kendi. I’d love to see his syllabus. It is tragic, of course, as you say, John, that none of the board actually sat in on his class.
Of course this argument is also based on the belief that students actually do the reading! 🙂