Changes coming to universities’ obsession with DEI?

[Anonymous]

The Penn thread has been locked, but someone there posted:

Live by DEI, die by DEI. When our colleges (all of them, with very few exceptions) bought into the idea that the entire world is explained by oppressed vs. oppressors, colonizers vs. colonized, this was an inevitable outcome. The next question is whether trustees will go further and start demanding cuts to the administrative bloat that enables a lot of this. This would not only return colleges to the faculty, but cut costs (which actually helps people, vs. choosing the “right” people to help.) This would also reduce the job market for graduates of “x studies” departments, another good thing.

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Do you believe universities may indeed return to sanity by reducing or eliminating all the waste on DEI on ever-more-expensive campuses?

[Anonymous]

Doubtful. If anything, they’ll rebrand it with a different name. The administrative bloat isn’t going anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Don’t believe the will, but that was exactly the suggestion just now by Fareed Zakaria on his CNN show.

[Anonymous]

Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Penn thread has been locked, but someone there posted:

Live by DEI, die by DEI. When our colleges (all of them, with very few exceptions) bought into the idea that the entire world is explained by oppressed vs. oppressors, colonizers vs. colonized, this was an inevitable outcome. The next question is whether trustees will go further and start demanding cuts to the administrative bloat that enables a lot of this. This would not only return colleges to the faculty, but cut costs (which actually helps people, vs. choosing the “right” people to help.) This would also reduce the job market for graduates of “x studies” departments, another good thing.

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Do you believe universities may indeed return to sanity by reducing or eliminating all the waste on DEI on ever-more-expensive campuses?

Right, DEI is the cause for the rising tuition costs, not all the ridiculous amenities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Penn thread has been locked, but someone there posted:

Live by DEI, die by DEI. When our colleges (all of them, with very few exceptions) bought into the idea that the entire world is explained by oppressed vs. oppressors, colonizers vs. colonized, this was an inevitable outcome. The next question is whether trustees will go further and start demanding cuts to the administrative bloat that enables a lot of this. This would not only return colleges to the faculty, but cut costs (which actually helps people, vs. choosing the “right” people to help.) This would also reduce the job market for graduates of “x studies” departments, another good thing.

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Do you believe universities may indeed return to sanity by reducing or eliminating all the waste on DEI on ever-more-expensive campuses?

Right, DEI is the cause for the rising tuition costs, not all the ridiculous amenities.

This. The obsession is with OP, not the colleges.

[Anonymous]

It’s really amazing to me how conservatives can attack DEI as being an infringement on the need for unfettered free speech on campus and then also attack it on the grounds that the speech of people opposed to the civilian deaths in Gaza must be limited to avoid harming Jewish students.

And if you try to point that out they make some entirely unsupported claim about how they are being consistent it’s just the universities that weren’t.

I mean I would almost give you props if it wasn’t that you have huge piles of money and entire media outlets to spread your BS.

[Anonymous]

Right, it’s the universities that are obsessed with DEI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Penn thread has been locked, but someone there posted:

Live by DEI, die by DEI. When our colleges (all of them, with very few exceptions) bought into the idea that the entire world is explained by oppressed vs. oppressors, colonizers vs. colonized, this was an inevitable outcome. The next question is whether trustees will go further and start demanding cuts to the administrative bloat that enables a lot of this. This would not only return colleges to the faculty, but cut costs (which actually helps people, vs. choosing the “right” people to help.) This would also reduce the job market for graduates of “x studies” departments, another good thing.

“

Do you believe universities may indeed return to sanity by reducing or eliminating all the waste on DEI on ever-more-expensive campuses?

Right, DEI is the cause for the rising tuition costs, not all the ridiculous amenities.

This. The obsession is with OP, not the colleges.

Yeah, I often wonder if there is a lobbyist or paid political poster on here. They post again and again trying to inject false information, negative vibes or propaganda into DEI, diversity, holistic admissions, URM applicants, etc etc. And using the horror in Israel and Palestine as a wedge to try create false antisemitic implications towards liberals as a whole now. It just seems so politically motivated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t believe the will, but that was exactly the suggestion just now by Fareed Zakaria on his CNN show.

Based on the comments so far, I guess Fareed is just a moron!

[Anonymous]

Republicans are idiots period.

Why are Maga uneducated see some of the posts above.

Don’t want DEI send your kid to liberty

I don’t want preachers on campus anymore I don’t want orgs like young life on campus any more. I don’t want Christmas activities. I don’t want professors that pontificate Bible crap at large state universities like University of Florida or at NC state or …,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s really amazing to me how conservatives can attack DEI as being an infringement on the need for unfettered free speech on campus and then also attack it on the grounds that the speech of people opposed to the civilian deaths in Gaza must be limited to avoid harming Jewish students.

And if you try to point that out they make some entirely unsupported claim about how they are being consistent it’s just the universities that weren’t.

I mean I would almost give you props if it wasn’t that you have huge piles of money and entire media outlets to spread your BS.

The overwhelming majority of media consumed in the USA leans left to far-left-progressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans are idiots period.

Why are Maga uneducated see some of the posts above.

Don’t want DEI send your kid to liberty

I don’t want preachers on campus anymore I don’t want orgs like young life on campus any more. I don’t want Christmas activities. I don’t want professors that pontificate Bible crap at large state universities like University of Florida or at NC state or …,

Your post is incoherent. Are drunk or high?

[Anonymous]

Doubt it, look what just happened with funding at U Wisconsin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t believe the will, but that was exactly the suggestion just now by Fareed Zakaria on his CNN show.

Based on the comments so far, I guess Fareed is just a moron!

Clearly, Fareed is a MAGA.