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DEI is on the run
Washington Examiner ^ | 1 Jan 2024 | Ed Board

Posted on 01/01/2024 6:05:31 AM PST by Rummyfan

Diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, in higher education was deceptively sold as a set of policies designed to promote "the fair treatment and full participation of all people," particularly groups that "have historically been underrepresented." But DEI offices have proved to be epicenters of division and ideological conformity, stirring hostilities and imposing an intolerant monoculture.

Fortunately, 2023 saw more than a dozen states start to take action against the DEI hydra, with six achieving concrete steps that other states should follow.

In Florida, colleges and universities are no longer allowed to allocate any money to DEI programs. Institutions across the state have, in consequence, eliminated DEI jobs, such as chief diversity officers. This is greatly to the good of real education and social cohesion. These officers are often in charge of college "bias response teams" that function as "woke" police on campuses. A Supreme Court case is set to shut many of these programs down, but states can take proactive steps now to solve the problem faster.

Texas passed its law curbing excesses this year, eliminating all DEI office training for staff and, more importantly, eliminating diversity statements in hiring. Universities nationwide use mandatory diversity statements to enforce ideological conformity in disciplines as varied as physics, history, and psychology. Junking these loyalty oaths is a key step to diversifying thought on campuses.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: Rummyfan

RATs will figure out a way to rename it and package it as something else and yet it will do t he same thing.


41 posted on 01/01/2024 12:45:50 PM PST by stylin19a (If I offer to wash your back in the shower, just yes\no. Not "Who are you-how did you get in here"?)
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To: Rummyfan

Speaking of DEI.

https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1743346866186514878

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1743346866186514878.html

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Hey
@united

On July 29, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing

Who was flying that aircraft?

Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through United’s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?

Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training?

Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?


42 posted on 01/05/2024 4:43:41 PM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: mjp

We need to get back to promoting real diversity of thought, not just superficial diversity of appearance.

* * *

Wonderful commentary there, mjp.


43 posted on 01/05/2024 5:58:02 PM PST by poconopundit (Kayleigh the Shillelagh, I'm disappointed in you....)
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To: Liz; GOPJ; V K Lee
Wow, Liz.  Thanks for posting this memo from Claudine Gay written a few years back as she was shortlisted for the job as president of Harvard University.

It's shocking to that Harvard hired Gray given her obvious hatred of what she imagines America to be -- as if it's a country waging constant warfare against the "colored" peoples" with incessant white and Asian "privileged" people as oppressing them.

This is full-bore Karl Marx and Lenin doctrine!  From her memo:

Apparently she sees no value in merit, hard work, and value delivered via private enterprise and allowing prices and supply/demand to automatically decide who wins and who loses in the business marketplace.

Sad to say, but the Hamas attack and the Harvard community's rallying behind Hamas served a useful purpose of sounding the alarm against this academic insanity.

And this false and sick doctrine has allowed liberal arts colleges and universities to manufacture millions of "minds of mush" as Rush would say.

I'm all in favor of Trump's plan to deliver free ( or low cost) higher education and degrees to challenge these Marxist universities and prevent them from poisoning our common-wealth and civil society.

44 posted on 01/05/2024 6:31:21 PM PST by poconopundit (Kayleigh the Shillelagh, I'm disappointed in you....)
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To: poconopundit

Yours is a good analysis of her chaotic thinking when she’s angling for a job.

BTW, Gay’s self-serving revisionist history to restore her self-confidence has already surfaced.

She now claims the genocide question posed to her by Congress was a “well-laid trap.”

The woman is nothing without DEI sustaining her.


45 posted on 01/05/2024 6:51:02 PM PST by Liz (Albert Schweitzer: “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.")
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To: poconopundit

The left, and all their bosom buddies, need to come to grips with the facts that outright
rejection of Western values (in the DEI hire of Claudine Gay) has enormous consequences.

Harvard’s Brave New World failed spectacularly.

Harvard has lost its honor, its academic preeminence and faces problems yet to
surface when it chose to burden itself with the cumbersome baggage of Claudine Gay.

To blame this on conservatism is preposterous.

Conservatism did not make Claudine say and do the things that contributed to her fall from grace.

Rather Claudine Gay was taking her cues from liberalism. She disdained and demeaned
cultural norms, and appeared to have not even a modicum of limits on her behavior.

IOW, a perfect liberal.


Claudine Gay’s worship of DEI was bound to end in failure
since DEI exalts human frailties...... and not just anywhere.

Gay exploited human weaknesses in a place-—Harvard-—
which goes to extraordinary lengths to do just the opposite.

One educated at Harvard is expected to be among the best and brightest........
not resemble a needy dithering halfwit dependent on DEI to get ahead.


46 posted on 01/05/2024 7:05:41 PM PST by Liz (Albert Schweitzer: “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.")
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To: Liz
I will launch a study of the hiring, professional development, and promotion practices that may contribute to the low representation of minority staff in managerial and executive roles carrying significant decision-making responsibility and authority. Led by the incoming Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and working closely with Leslie Kirwan, Dean for Administration and Finance, Nina Zipser, Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Rakesh Khurana, Danoff Dean of Harvard College, the study will identify concrete steps we can take to increase racial diversity of senior staff and recommend near- and long-term hiring goals for the FAS.

— These initiatives are just a starting place. Our engagement in anti-racist action and the infusion of inclusive practices into all aspects of our teaching and research mission reflect a new sense of institutional responsibility and will require sustained effort over time.

Wow - Harvard really is nothing but an indoctrination center... Commmie filth...

47 posted on 01/05/2024 7:58:47 PM PST by GOPJ (FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places. Time to get real)
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To: GOPJ

This to me is laughable, that they actually have on the payroll
an “Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.”


48 posted on 01/05/2024 8:05:57 PM PST by Liz (Albert Schweitzer: “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.")
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To: Liz

Parents need to rethink sending their kids to Harvard - especially if they’re white.


49 posted on 01/05/2024 8:22:30 PM PST by GOPJ (FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places. Time to get real)
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