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diversity equity and inclusion

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, […]

Roundup: reviews of Musa al-Gharbi’s ‘We Have Never Been Woke’

Nadya Williams   |  January 15, 2025

We may yet run a review at Current, but for the moment, a roundup of representative coverage elsewhere.

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences scrap diversity statements

John Fea   |  June 4, 2024

Back in April, Harvard philosophy professor Edward J. Hall wrote, “Furor over diversity statements in hiring is a red herring…we should direct anger at its proper target: not diversity statements themselves, but rather the horribly distorted view that has taken […]

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 […]

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 […]