Whatever college students are paying for, it’s increasingly not an education.
An investigation by pro-First Amendment group Speech First found that 165 of 248 US colleges require DEI-related classes to graduate.
The study covered the nation’s 100 largest-enrollment universities as well as all top-ranked schools, all of NCAA Division 1 and all colleges with endowments above $1 billion.
And at two-thirds of them, students must subject themselves to at least one entire course of divisive lefty propaganda to get their degrees.
Yes, diversity, equity and inclusion are all fine ideals, but DEI is about dividing everyone “into identitarian groupings based on racial, sexual, and political characteristics to create a rigid framework amongst students where they only see each other as either the ‘oppressor’ or the ‘oppressed,’ ” as the report notes.
The DEI ideology opposes diversity of thought, equality of opportunity and inclusion of critical thinking.
And of course any school that mandates even a single DEI course will be rife with it (and related garbage like Critical Race Theory) in lots of other classes.
A savvy, independent-minded youth may be able to minimize how much of his or her four years is wasted (or worse) on this junk, but it’s a lot easier to just go with the flow.
In another sign of how deep the rot runs in Academia, the Anti-Defamation League’s recent “Campus Antisemitism Report Card” found that only two of 85 reviewed universities (Brandeis University in Massachusetts and Elon University in North Carolina) are doing enough to fight anti-Jewish bigotry to warrant an A grade.
Thirteen schools, including (unsurprisingly) Harvard and MIT, earned Fs.
Columbia and Cornell got Ds; NYU, a C.
Of course, DEI and antisemitism go hand-in-hand: DEI slots Jews into the privileged/oppressor category, while campus antisemitism is overwhelmingly a left-wing affair, driven by deranged claims that Israel is a “settler-colonialist” project.
The simple fact is that most US universities have been “colonized” by radicals who put ideology above true education and divert ever-more of ever-rising tuition costs to administrators dedicated to DEI and other thought control (of faculty as well as students.)
No wonder the majority of Americans don’t think a college degree is worth the cost.