Are Florida Universities Training Therapists to Be Political Activists?

Governor Ron DeSantis’s investigation into universities’ diversity, equity, and inclusion policies uncovered a trove of documents on the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Central Florida (UCF).

What stood out to us — a psychiatrist and a psychologist — were the racially segregated counseling sessions on “systemic racism, privilege, oppression, and institutional challenges” at USF in the wake of George Floyd’s death. At UCF, a professor of counselor education exhorted white people “to stop the systemic system that’s been put into play by white people.”