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and analysis of the writer:

Assimilation 鈥� the forced absorption of one culture into another 鈥� has always served institutional power. From slaveholders who banned African languages and broke up families, to federal Indian boarding schools that punished Native languages and beliefs, these systems aimed not just to educate, but to erase. They traumatized individuals and devastated communities. And yet, identity 鈥攖hough scarred 鈥� endured.

Today, this debunked political ploy is being dusted off and redeployed at the University of Arizona. Under the guise of 鈥渆fficiency鈥� and 鈥渕ulticulturalism,鈥� the administration is downgrading and merging longstanding cultural centers into a single, centralized 鈥渕ulticultural hub.鈥� This may sound inclusive, but it echoes a troubling legacy: homogenizing diverse identities into one mold, make them easier to manage, and calling it progress.

These centers aren鈥檛 symbolic. They鈥檙e vital spaces where Native American, Black, Hispanic, LGBT, and disabled students find friendship, support, study partners, and a sense of belonging. They offer a small oasis to ease the transition from familiar high school networks into a sprawling urban campus of tens of thousands of strangers.

As a cultural anthropologist who proudly represented Tucson in the legislature, I鈥檓 concerned. Institutionalizing cultural homogeneity doesn鈥檛 foster unity 鈥� it financially and educationally weakens the university.

With high school graduate numbers declining and costs soaring, a university鈥檚 financial survival depends on offering a meaningful student experience. Nearly half of the University of Arizona鈥檚 budget comes from tuition and fees. We need to be more student-friendly, not less.

The university鈥檚 new president and provost come from Vermont 鈥� a state that is 94.5% Anglo and culturally worlds apart from Arizona鈥檚 rich tribal and Latino heritage. Experiments like this assimilation hub risks threatening student experience.

Arizona recently ranked 241st in the Wall Street Journal鈥檚 massive national survey of student experience at 500 U.S. colleges. The University of Vermont 鈥� led by both of our new officials 鈥� ranked dead last: 500th out of 500. These numbers should be a wake-up call. Before remaking this campus in the homogeneous image of their last, they should first take the time to understand the one they now call home.

College is about more than lectures and degrees. It鈥檚 where students discover who they are, build networks, and forge lifelong bonds. Flattening that experience into cultural uniformity 鈥� graduating replicons 鈥� turns assimilation into a virtue and diversity into a problem. That鈥檚 not unity; it鈥檚 engineered sameness masquerading as progress.

In the meantime, the university should abandon this quasi-political project of creating a 鈥渕ulticultural hub鈥� with its administrator taking home just short of $400k. So far, the hub doesn鈥檛 even have a name. If not scrapped, it might well be called the Assimilation Spoke Shop 鈥� serving all identities equally, provided they rotate in the right direction.