In recent years, many faculty have encountered calls to “decolonize the syllabus.  What does it mean to “decolonize the syllabus? How would a faculty member go about accomplishing this? Like other catchphrases, I really don’t know. Is it a matter of eliminating Shakespeare, Milton, Marx, and other white men and replacing them with more “diverse” authors? Or, is it a matter of re-writing the course from scratch? Should faculty start with a clean slate instead of trying to revise what already exists? Continue reading →