The Supreme Court’s decision banning the practice of affirmative action in college admissions last summer joins a variety of state laws and growing political pressure for colleges and universities to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The number of educational institutions is increasing. And practice.
history of higher education tracked changes Since January 2023, on 158 college campuses in 22 states, the tracker says, “As a result of legislation, executive orders, and institutional mandates, public universities have increased “We are collecting changes that have been made.” and other state-level measures. ”
Most recently, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees eliminated its DEI program and instead transferred millions of dollars to public safety and campus police in response to large-scale anti-Israel protests.
Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, a national grassroots organization that aims to encourage schools to “educate, not indoctrinate,” said in an interview on Fox News Digital that the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling , said it provided a legal backstop for some universities already dissatisfied with the system. Lack of results from his multi-million dollar funded and bloated DEI department.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators replace the American flag with the Palestinian flag at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 30. Police cleared the Gaza Solidarity encampment early that morning. (Travis Long/News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“I think this is an opportunity to start curbing some of these overreaches, because as much as all these school districts and educators and universities say, ‘We want evidence-based,’ we don’t want this program to work. “Where is the evidence that it has had an impact? Are our campuses calmer and calmer than they were 10 years ago? Absolutely not,” she said.
Neily explained that DEI “proxies” are starting to emerge in some institutions, perhaps to avoid accountability.
“Years ago, it was critical race theory. And everyone was like, ‘No, we’re not doing critical race theory. What we’re doing now is culturally responsive. ‘It’s a great education,”’ Neily explained.
“I think the same thing is happening with the DEI moniker. We’re kind of seeing this change in real time. For a while, it was JEDI, which is Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Nowadays, we see a lot of things like that.” – This is called “belonging.” ”
Part of the problem, Neily added, is that it “just incorporates really significant national choice challenges.”
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Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, said part of the problem with DEI is that “there’s a really significant public choice conundrum built into it.” (Boston Globe/Contributor | Michael M. Santiago/Staff)
“If you have a fiefdom and you’re a DEI dean or a DEI director, you can’t actually go to the end of the year and say, “Hate incidents on campus have decreased significantly, or appear to have decreased.” I can’t say, “It’s like we introduced the most diverse class we’ve ever had,” and we have a lower budget and we have to find staff, so we have to look at things like problems and find solutions.” she explained.
But in light of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University, in which the Supreme Court ruled in June that using race as a factor in college admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. , Niley said school administrators are not. He is in favor of DEI issues, but he “felt like we had to” now have legal guarantees to dismantle DEI issues.
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DEI = Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. (Djimitri Dzemidovic)
The Chronicle reported that laws in more than 20 states already impact DEI programs in schools. But Naley says she’d like to see more.
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“Governors, like state legislatures, have a lot of power over this. So I want them to have a little more sense of urgency about this. We believe in a colorblind society, we believe in America. We don’t believe in balkanizing people based on immutable characteristics, so why would federal and state tax dollars be used for that purpose?” she said.
Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
