University of Illinois lesson materials push leftist race, class struggles on future teachers: leaked lectures

EXCLUSIVE: More leaked PowerPoint lectures from a first-year University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign people amusement left-wing ideology interwoven into the cloth of the course.

Fox News Digital obtained people worldly from weeks six and 9 of EDUC 201, "Identity and Difference successful Education," from a acrophobic student. The people is taken by aboriginal teachers, and is portion of the university's acquisition department.

Week nine's lecture is titled "Cultivating Belonging."

"Recent information bespeak that adjacent to 40% of US precocious schoolhouse students bash not consciousness connected to school. This consciousness of alienation is peculiarly acute among students facing racism, LGBTQ+ students, and students with disabilities. Evidence points to curricular and schoolhouse structures that neglect to prosecute galore students arsenic a superior crushed students cull schooling that devalues them, arsenic opposed to rejecting school," says a descent aboriginal successful the presentation, quoting a insubstantial from the Aspen Institute.

A descent from a archetypal semester 2025 lecture successful an acquisition people astatine the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign teaches astir "cultivating belonging." (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

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The cardinal to teaching astir belonging, according to the presentation, is intersectionality.

"When talking astir belonging it's important to see if we’re asking students to conform to norms that don’t bespeak their bodies of cognition (e.g., assimilation, erasure) oregon are we reasoning astir belonging successful culturally applicable and intersectional ways?" asks a descent that is portion of the lecture.

Another descent is called "Erasure of Racially Minoritized Students." The full descent is simply a punctuation from a idiosyncratic named Xóchitl, identified arsenic a ninth grader astatine Shields High School.

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"When you’re with your Mexican friends immoderate achromatic radical don’t admit you erstwhile you’re successful the hallways, and you spot idiosyncratic that you cognize and it’s similar they’re with their achromatic friends, they don’t spot you, but erstwhile you’re playing sports, they cognize you’re there," Xóchitl's punctuation says. "They commencement talking to you otherwise than erstwhile they speech to you extracurricular of sports."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the course's professor, Gabriel Rodriguez, for clarification connected the root of the quote. He did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

Slide 14 of the lecture features a three-minute video from Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., published by The Root, a quality outlet whose tagline is, "Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude."

A descent from an October 2025 acquisition people lecture astatine the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign features a video of writer Beverly Daniel Tatum. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

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Tatum is the writer of "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together successful the Cafeteria?" The publication is simply a nationalist bestseller. Tatum's video is titled, "Why the Black Kids Still Sit Together."

"We're each influenced by contention and racism successful our society," said Tatum successful the video. Tatum is besides the president emerita of Spelman College, a historically Black assemblage successful Atlanta.

"If you're increasing up arsenic a young idiosyncratic of colour successful the society, portion of that acquisition is to get messages from the wider satellite astir who you are racially, and however radical are responding to that," she said.

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Tatum aboriginal brings up segregation.

"Residential segregation and schoolhouse segregation spell unneurotic across," she said. "And to the grade that the schools and the neighborhoods are segregated, it means that the societal networks that assistance you find employment, that assistance you entree higher education, that assistance you determination up the economical ladder, are much constricted — and that's a problem."

A University of Illinois introduction motion successful Champaign, Illinois. The University of Illinois is simply a authorities assemblage successful Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. It offers teaching and probe programs astatine some the undergraduate and postgraduate levels to implicit 56,000 students.  (Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"We are inactive dealing with radical hierarchies," Tatum continued. "We're inactive dealing with achromatic supremacy. We're inactive dealing with the benignant of systematic racism that impacts communities of color."

Toward the extremity of the lecture, a descent instructs the aboriginal educators connected however to cultivate belonging.

"Affirming and accepting students for each their complexities – peculiarly for students with minoritized identities," says 1 point.

"Embracing and implementing culturally applicable teaching practices that bespeak students’ identities," is another.

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Week six's lecture is called "Understanding the relation of people successful acquisition inequality," and begins with a database of the apical precocious schools successful Illinois. 

It past discusses stereotypes of rural, suburban and municipality schools, noting that agrarian schools are often thought of arsenic "poor" and white, suburban schools are often thought of arsenic "resource rich" and white, and that municipality schools are often thought of arsenic "dysfunctional" and "composed by students of color."

A descent from a lecture from September 2025 astatine the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign focuses connected stereotypes astir schools. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

"Class inequality is expanding and portion of mundane beingness successful these contexts," says the adjacent slide, followed by different descent quoting the writer of a publication called "Radical Possibilities: Public policy, municipality education, and a caller societal movement," which says the national authorities plays a "proactive" relation successful maintaining the poorness of families and neighborhoods wherever schools are "poorly funded, staffed, and resourced..."

A conception called "Opportunity Hoarding," defined arsenic "the process done which ascendant groups who person power implicit immoderate bully (e.g., education) modulate its circulation, frankincense preventing out-groups from having afloat entree to it," is simply a large absorption of the lesson.

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According to the slides, that explanation is derived from a 2015 publication by Amanda Lewis and John Diamond, called "Despite the champion intentions: How radical inequality thrives successful bully schools."

"Opportunity hoarding, specified arsenic fundraising efforts of middle- and upper-middle people parents to enactment schoolhouse programming exacerbate existing assets gaps betwixt schools," 1 lecture descent says.

A descent from a September 2025 lecture astatine the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign focuses connected "opportunity hoarding."  (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

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"Opportunity hoarding, specified arsenic absorption from middle- and upper-middle people parents to de-track oregon to make unfastened entree to honors/AP courses lessens acquisition opportunities for low-income students," says another.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

Lectures absorption connected racism, achromatic supremacy and cultivating belonging for 'minoritized' students