To its supporters, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) is self-evidently virtuous and just. To its detractors, it is divisive, corrosive to the human soul, and antithetical to merit.
In an extensive report, Speech First found that 67% of colleges and universities across America require students to complete Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion courses to graduate. As Speech First put it, “no graduation without indoctrination.” They freely violate President Trump’s executive order, and Congress has not codified the order.
The report examined 248 colleges and found that 165 require students to take a DEI course to graduate. ”A mere 33% of colleges and universities did not have a DEI requirement. Additionally, “59% of the universities surveyed that have DEI course requirements are public, while 41% are private.”
Even in states that have banned DEI departments in public schools, students are still often required to take DEI courses to graduate. They are doing this in red states.
Many states aren’t even banning it.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask them how many Republicans are in their sociology department. ~Thomas Sowell
Speech First is a membership association of students, parents, faculty, alumni, and concerned citizens. Together, they are committed to restoring the freedom of speech on college campuses through advocacy, education, and litigation.
The Executive Summary of the report states that students are bombarded with this far-left (communist) indoctrination.
“In our last report, published in 2022, “Freshman Disorientation: How Colleges and Universities Lay the Groundwork for Student Indoctrination,” we documented how colleges bombard students with mandatory DEI seminars the moment they step on campus. When students begin college, they often encounter a focus on DEI concepts that emphasize racial and sexual differences through critical theory exercises, all while being shielded from fundamental American principles like free speech and viewpoint diversity.
165 of 248 colleges require indoctrination
“In this report, we document—for the first time—that in a vast majority of colleges, the DEI indoctrination is not simply a pill you must swallow before starting classes, but extends to academic credit hour requirements you must endure to graduate. By examining general education requirements at 248 colleges, we find that 165 require students to take a DEI-related class to graduate.
“Obviously, a commitment to free speech on campus requires academic freedom for professors within their classrooms. But American universities are increasingly institutionally stacking the deck by requiring students to sit through classes that, rather than impart knowledge or build saleable skills, infuse an ideological worldview that is in many instances hostile to key tenets of the American way of life. Taxpayers may well wonder why they subsidize academic institutions that require training in a hostile ideology as a graduation requirement.”
To its supporters, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) is self-evidently virtuous and just. To its detractors, it is divisive, corrosive to the human soul, and antithetical to merit. However, as American citizens become more acquainted with DEI, they realize the underlying issue. And that is, a specific far-left political faction has co-opted certain buzzwords that Americans naturally endorse. They are using those phrases and concepts to promote agendas and ideologies that Americans instinctively oppose.
Indoctrination by Intimidation
Students become intimidated by the power of groupthink in these programs. The level of indoctrination and coercion goes far beyond what people knew. They have built this now-deeply ingrained system over ten years. They have embedded far-left professors in these schools.
The DEI language we screened for in the above categories are: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” “Diversity and Inclusion;” and “Equity;” Social justice, activism, liberation; Power, power structures, intersectionality; Race, racism, and antiracism, systemic racism, institutional racism, white supremacy, white guilt, white fragility, white responsibility, critical race theory, black power, black liberation; Marxism, privilege, class, socioeconomic status, inequality; Sex, sexuality, sexual orientation LGBTQ+, queer, gender, critical gender theory; Feminism, toxic masculinity, male privilege, misogyny, gender roles; Minority, marginalized, disenfranchised studies; Ableism; Bias, implicit bias.
It’s cultural communism, and they are integrating it into general courses.
Read the details and the list of courses requiring DEI at this link.
