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What to Know About the University of Michigan’s D.E.I. Experiment: A Times investigation found that the school built one of the most ambitious diversity programs in the country — only to see increased discord and division on campus.
New York Times ^ | October 16, 2024 | Nicholas Confessore

Posted on 10/16/2024 8:12:24 PM PDT by grundle

... the university has built the largest D.E.I. bureaucracy of any big public university.

Michigan has invested nearly 250 million dollars into D.E.I. since 2016

The number of employees who work in D.E.I.-related offices or have “diversity,” “equity” or “inclusion” in their job titles reached 241 last year

Michigan has struggled to improve Black enrollment — and students overall feel less included, not more.

The percentage of Black students, currently around 5 percent, remained largely stagnant as Michigan’s overall enrollment rose — and in a state where 14 percent of residents are Black. In a survey released in late 2022, students and faculty members across the board reported a less positive campus climate than at the program’s start and less of a sense of belonging.

Students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics — the exact kind of engagement D.E.I. programs, in theory, are meant to foster.

D.E.I. at Michigan has helped fuel a culture of grievance.

Instead of improving students’ ability to engage with one another across their differences, Michigan’s D.E.I. expansion has coincided with an explosion in campus conflict over race and gender.

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


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1 posted on 10/16/2024 8:12:24 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Stevie Wonder could have seen that coming.


2 posted on 10/16/2024 8:15:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grundle
"A Times investigation found that the school built one of the most ambitious diversity programs in the country — only to see increased discord and division on campus."

Naturally. Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate university.
3 posted on 10/16/2024 8:40:13 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: grundle
Well it’s been a while since you’ve seen her but it’s so appropriate. IMG-9251
4 posted on 10/16/2024 8:54:26 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: grundle
Of course there will be more discontent. Read “It’s Your Ship” by Abrashoff. As captain, he took over a dysfunctional navy crew. The first thing he did was drop diversity training and replaced it with unity training. Morale improved immediately.

DIE focuses on the problem, but the solution. It’s communistic, meant to divide and weaken.

5 posted on 10/16/2024 9:00:11 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: grundle

Like a prison. You gotta join one of the three gangs.


6 posted on 10/16/2024 9:13:51 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: grundle

DEI is DOA


7 posted on 10/16/2024 9:54:16 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: grundle

Who would have ever thought that dividing people by oppressed and oppressor would make people more divided!?
I am shocked!


8 posted on 10/16/2024 10:47:41 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: grundle

That is what DEI is supposed to do.
That is the outcome of this program, and here is the evidence for all to see that can see. Only the blind won’t be able to put this together.


9 posted on 10/16/2024 10:57:43 PM PDT by coincheck (Salvation is for today, not tomorrow, you might not make it that far.....)
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To: grundle

Addressing a problem that doesn’t exist is a sure fire way to create that problem.


10 posted on 10/16/2024 11:08:27 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: grundle

Maybe the blacks are smart enough to know you don’t need college to get through life. More jobs,less college.
Maybe not.


11 posted on 10/17/2024 3:19:10 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships)
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“Addressing a problem that doesn’t exist is a sure fire way to create that problem.”

And that is the sole purpose of most of our government at this point.

12 posted on 10/17/2024 4:51:33 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: grundle

bttt


13 posted on 10/17/2024 4:55:13 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: grundle

D.I.E. = leftist feel-good program destined to fail miserably.


14 posted on 10/17/2024 8:51:52 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: grundle

EVERY SINGLE COLLEGE IN THE USA NEEDS TO USE MERIT & ONLY MERIT TO ADMIT STUDENTS.

WHEN A COLLEGE STUDENT NEEDS REMEDIAL READING & MATH-—THEY ARE STEALING A SEAT FROM ANOTHER—MORE QUALIFIED-—STUDENT.


15 posted on 10/17/2024 9:03:15 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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