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DEI

“Even a first-year law student knows that the federal government cannot dictate the viewpoint and curriculum of a private Christian school”

John Fea   |  March 9, 2025

Here is David French at The New York Times: This might sound like a funny thing to say, but I’ve rarely read a more unconstitutional letter. On Monday, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sent the […]

The Trump administration is going after private faith-based colleges

John Fea   |  March 6, 2025

David French is on the case:

What is DEI anyway?

John Fea   |  March 3, 2025

Here is Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: On President Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, he issued an executive order ending diversity, equity, and inclusion in the federal government. Its sweeping language forbids DEI “mandates, policies, programs, preferences, […]

David French: “Trump’s cure for D.E.I. isn’t a true meritocracy, but rather affirmative action for the MAGA movement.”

John Fea   |  January 30, 2025

If you read this blog regularly, you know that I am often critical of some of the stuff associated with the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” industry. (See, for example, recent Commonplace Book entries on Musa Al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been […]

Democrats need to “ditch” DEI thinking and “get back to fighting for the poor, the working class, and the middle class”

John Fea   |  November 8, 2024

Writer Rand Richard Cooper asks whether the Democrats have “lost the country.” Here is a taste of his piece at Commonweal: The wealthy, worldly, and highly educated parts of this nation are Democratic, while the struggling, provincial, and undereducated parts […]

What is going on at The Ohio State University?

John Fea   |  November 27, 2023

And I am not talking about three straight football losses to Michigan. John Sailer of the National Association of Scholars, a political conservative education advocacy organization, recently obtained 800 pages of “Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports” from The Ohio State University. […]

Eboo Patel: Diversity training should be about “contributions,” not “wounds”

John Fea   |  October 15, 2023

Eboo Patel is the founder and presdient of Interfaith America and the author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for a Diverse Democracy. Earlier this year we called your attention to his piece at The Chronicle of Education: “Today’s […]

Eboo Patel: “It’s time to overturn the Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi model” of “power and privilege”

John Fea   |  September 8, 2023

Patel argues that universities should switch from an “antiracism” model of diversity to a ‘cosmpolitan” model. Here is a taste his Chronicle of Higher Education piece: “Today’s DEI Is Obsessed With Power and Privilege“: Over the past five years or […]

The Protestant roots of “wokeness”

John Fea   |  June 21, 2023

Harper’s Magazine is running a piece by Ian Buruma, the former editor of The New York Review of Books (read the article to learn why he is no longer the editor), titled, “Doing the Work: The Protestant ethic and the […]

“The worst of the DEI industry is expensive and runs from useless to counterproductive.”

John Fea   |  June 1, 2023

Here is Conor Freidersdorf at The Atlantic: The diversity, equity, and inclusion industry exploded in 2020 and 2021, but it is undergoing a reckoning of late, and not just in states controlled by Republicans, where officials are dismantling DEI bureaucracies in public […]

The D.E.I. debate

John Fea   |  May 17, 2023

Florida governor Ron DeSantis just signed a bill banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public universities. Here are two pieces I read today about the state of DEI on campuses and in the corporate world. Here is a taste […]

What is happening with DEI in colleges and universities?

John Fea   |  April 6, 2023

I am hearing more and more stories like the one Tabia Lee tells at Compact. Here is a taste: This month, I was fired from my position as faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education […]