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Academia tilts very far to the left: Restoring balance won't be easy
Renaming DEI departments and ending diversity statements won't fix academia's intellectual monoculture.
Joanne Jacobs
3 days ago2 min read
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DEI double take
Columbia researchers say they're losing federal grants for DEI language that they were required to add by the Biden administration.
Joanne Jacobs
4 days ago2 min read
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Dear Colleague: Do what the Ed Department wants -- or else
The Education Department has used "guidance" letters to force states, colleges and districts to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 43 min read
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'Americans got tired of being ridiculed for values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility,' and now it's backlash time
The anti-DEI backlash is fierce, because so many people were forced to suppress their real feelings.
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 182 min read
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Schools' gender, DEI policies pushed parents to the right
Parents have moved to the right, fed up by transgender and DEI policies.
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 82 min read
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DEI's done: Let's see what a colorblind America looks like
Donald Trump's executive order ending racial preferences will have far-reaching effects.
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 243 min read
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De-woke schooling: Send the DEI trainers on a one-way 'privilege walk'
Pennsylvania educators will not have to affirm their belief in microaggressions, implicit bias or the illegitimacy of "economic,...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 15, 20242 min read
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College presidents, it's going to be a bumpy ride
Trump is likely to go after elite colleges and favor vocational education.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 12, 20241 min read
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Identity politics lost: It's time for the great rethink in education
"Your ancestors weren't villains," the meme declares. "Don't apologize for them to people who hate you." Conor Friedersdorf points out...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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Disadvantaged? Really???
Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of two university professors, was admitted to Hastings law school via a program for applicants...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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DEI at U of Michigan: 'rote incantations of a state religion'
University of Michigan's DEI program has created a "culture of grievance," not inclusion, say students and professors.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Scream 2025: Satan's wonks call for parents' bill of rights, block grants
Project 2025's education section is a standard conservative wish list featuring parents' rights and block-granting federal funds.
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 23, 20242 min read
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The rise of MEI: merit, excellence and intelligence
Will MEI -- merit, excellence and intelligence -- replace DEI?
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 18, 20242 min read
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Backlash: Professors reject DEI 'loyalty oaths'
Universities should stop requiring diversity statements, writes Randall L. Kennedy, a Harvard Law professor, in the Harvard Crimson....
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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A professor writes: What I really think about DEI
James Hankins, a Harvard history professor, posts an honest diversity statement addressed to "dear members of Harvard's Faceless...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 21, 20242 min read
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DEI backlash
In the name of DEI -- diversity, equity and inclusion -- many colleges and universities "have violated their constitutional commitments...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 15, 20242 min read
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The Great Renaming: Adios to DEI, hello to 'Belonging' bureaucrats
Is DEI dead -- or just disrupted? Texas' state colleges and universities were forced to close diversity, equity and inclusion offices...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 5, 20242 min read
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DEI rejects merit, excellence, hard work, individual dignity
DEI isn't about diversity, equity or inclusion, writes Bari Weiss on Tablet. It is "an ideological movement bent on recategorizing every...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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When inclusion isn't enough: The new buzzword is 'belonging'
"Belonging" has joined "diversity," "equity" and "inclusion" (and sometimes "access") as the newest buzzword on college campuses, writes ...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 21, 20232 min read
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'Diversity' officials widen racial gaps, harm minority students
Hiring a "chief diversity officer" doesn't close achievement gaps, concludes an analysis by Jay P. Greene and Madison Marino of the...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 16, 20231 min read
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