DEI infestation is still pervasive at Universities, especially the University of Colorado. How do we rectify that?
How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado
The Wall Street Journal explains How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado
President Trump’s executive order “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” reaffirms what has been true since the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Discrimination in hiring isn’t allowed. The order will deter universities from violating the law. Its ripple effects could also help reverse a related trend: ideological discrimination, which has reshaped the very meaning of higher education.
In a hiring proposal that the National Association of Scholars acquired, faculty and staff of the university’s program for writing and rhetoric argued that recruiting a “BIPOC” professor—the acronym stands for “black, indigenous and people of color”—was vital to the department’s “curricular and programmatic goals.” Faculty at the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures, proposing to hire a German-studies professor, touted the racial diversity of the department’s preferred candidate and explained how she could revise courses on fairy tales, folklore, and fantasy to incorporate “critical race studies perspectives.”
Both of these scholars, and many more, were hired through the university’s Faculty Diversity Action Plan, a special funding program for diversity-focused faculty hiring, which ran until 2023, when it was restructured and renamed. Created in 2020, the program played a significant role in dictating whom the university hired. In a 2022 faculty meeting, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences was asked how many professors were hired through the program since it began. He estimated that around 90% were either hired through the program or were spousal hires.
One version of the application form, which was used in dozens of the hiring plans, asks departments: “How will this hire increase the number of underrepresented faculty members in the unit (e.g., US Faculty of Color, women in disciplines where underrepresented)?”
The university’s framing should have immediately raised legal red legal flags. Long before Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned race-based discrimination, which President Trump’s executive order reaffirms. Consultants often remind universities that they can’t base hiring decisions on race.
Yet, competing for the funds to bring in new faculty, academic departments happily followed administrators’ prompting and boasted about their intent to discriminate. “Our commitment, should we be successful with this application, is to hire someone from the BIPOC community,” wrote faculty and staff at the journalism department. “Our aim is specifically to hire a Black, Indigenous, or Latinx faculty member,” wrote faculty at the geography department.
The program ram-rodded its diversity priorities at an impressive scale. Several plans proposed not only single hires but the hiring of multiple professors at once. “This cluster hire,” faculty and staff at the college of engineering and applied science wrote, “has the goal of doubling our underrepresented faculty in the college.” Another cluster hire, faculty at the information science department noted, “emphasizes hiring Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Latinx, and Pacific Islander faculty.” Faculty at the department of ethnic studies wrote: “We have an urgent and qualified need for BIPOC femme/women of color faculty in an Africana Studies focus who will contribute to the social science division thematic cluster hire in racism and racial inequality.”
The records show how departments used ideological affinity as a tool to recruit minorities. Faculty and staff at the writing and rhetoric program noted that “another BIPOC TT hire”—TT meaning tenure track—“is critical to meet our curricular and programmatic goals.” They thus proposed hiring a scholar specializing in “critical approaches to race, ethnicity, culture, embodiment, and/or decolonialism,” arguing that such a search “is likely to draw interest from a large pool of diverse scholars.”
To undo the damage will be a monumental task, and an end to race-based hiring is the necessary first step. The sign of true success will be when universities empower scholars who understand the true purpose of higher education: the pursuit of truth.
Only BIPOCs Need Apply
In an attempt to its blatant anti-white discrimination the University of Colorado renamed the program to Critical Needs Hiring Program (CNHP) but the goals only strengthened.
Guiding Principles
The CNHP’s guiding principles and commitments are derived from Regent Laws and Policies governing the University of Colorado community, establishing that diversity, equity, and inclusion; nondiscrimination; and academic freedom are co-existent guiding principles and fundamental values.
How is the Critical Needs Hiring Program (CHNP) different from the old FDAP?
The CNHP will continue the funding support of $1M salary + benefits for tenured, tenure-track (TTT) and teaching-track hires through the campus budget model (this has not changed). Units receiving these lines will rotate, but unlike the FDAP, OFA will no longer facilitate a competitive selection process in which an advisory committee would make recommendations to the provost regarding which units should be allocated these lines.
How do we make a Critical Needs hire in alignment with the above guiding principles?
As indicated in the definition of Critical Needs, the process will consider and seek out those applicants who bring perspectives, life experiences, and expertise that are not (or are less) represented within the unit doing the hiring. The process should focus on an applicant’s demonstrated actions, not beliefs or identities. More specifically, the hiring can consider an applicant’s:
Demonstrated knowledge, such as pedagogical approach, about diversity, equity, and inclusion; Track record, such as experience in the field, including service and committee work and research and scholarship, in advancing equity and inclusion;
DEI Indoctrination
The University of Colorado clearly had a mandated goal of DEI indoctrination of faculty and therefore students.
Diversity at the University of Colorado actually meant extreme un-diversity. Only one viewpoint was allowed. And whites (or even Blacks who did not toe the line) were deemed unqualified, if not outright inferior.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, and religion.
Trump affirmed the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
On January 21, 2025 President Trump issued an Executive Order Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. These civil-rights protections serve as a bedrock supporting equality of opportunity for all Americans. As President, I have a solemn duty to ensure that these laws are enforced for the benefit of all Americans.
Yet today, roughly 60 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, critical and influential institutions of American society, including the Federal Government, major corporations, financial institutions, the medical industry, large commercial airlines, law enforcement agencies, and institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) or “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) that can violate the civil-rights laws of this Nation.
Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned, or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex.
The Federal Government is charged with enforcing our civil-rights laws. The purpose of this order is to ensure that it does so by ending illegal preferences and discrimination.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the civil rights of all Americans and to promote individual initiative, excellence, and hard work. I therefore order all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements. I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.
Sec. 3. Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government. (a) The following executive actions are hereby revoked:
(i) Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations);
(ii) Executive Order 13583 of August 18, 2011 (Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce);
(iii) Executive Order 13672 of July 21, 2014 (Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity); and
(iv) The Presidential Memorandum of October 5, 2016 (Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the National Security Workforce). ….. [Many More].Sec. 4. Encouraging the Private Sector to End Illegal DEI Discrimination and Preferences. (a) The heads of all agencies, with the assistance of the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate action with respect to the operations of their agencies to advance in the private sector the policy of individual initiative, excellence, and hard work identified in section 2 of this order.
Sec. 5. Other Actions. Within 120 days of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly issue guidance to all State and local educational agencies that receive Federal funds, as well as all institutions of higher education that receive Federal grants or participate in the Federal student loan assistance program under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq., regarding the measures and practices required to comply with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023).
Sec. 6. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Civil Rights Activist
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard University’s use of race in undergraduate admissions violated the Constitution.
The ruling came in the case Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Trump mandates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 be practiced.
Remedy of Illegal Actions
The logical remedy for the blatantly illegal actions at the University of Colorado is to seek discharge of every person at the university who was illegally hired.
That is the only way to guarantee the elimination of race-based hiring and student indoctrination.
Time to Cheer
Everyone should praise President Trump as a genuine Equal Opportunity advocate and Civil Rights activist.
This applies no matter what you believe the President’s goals are because discrimination for any reason is always wrong.
Finally, the only way to end discrimination based on race, sex, and religion is to stop discriminating based on race, sex, and religion. And that is precisely what Trump ordered.
Praise Trump [any politician] for correct actions and speak out when you disagree. Trump deserves praise for this.
So much damage and infestation. Worse than bedbugs. You can’t just tell them to leave. But you can starve them, freeze, them, or make it too hot for them….
Money talks… as does the lack of it.
How else to incentivise meritocracy? I guess ensuring that gongs and accolades are restored to being given for overtly obvious evidenced achievement.
These events are in the realm of lawfare, NOT cultural. No change will occur. Go deeper, read Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order: Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self, 2016, by Howard S. Schwartz.
Will the the Spanish language signs in Lowe’s and HD be removed now?
Praise Trump indeed, for ending DEI. I wouldn’t worry too much about the “Infestation” however, as that will be dealt with fairly easily.
He will just have anyone Knowingly not sharing information, allowing it to occur, and keeping quiet, playing part in, a role in, or aiding and abetting anything even remotely close, will get you noticed and if need be arrested for your role or your part in even a drop of ANY of it.
You will wish you didn’t do so, and so may your Family and Friends and anyone close to you, who may or may not have played a role, but that’s what investigators do, when doing investigations. They uncover everything about a person, there friends and family, and if need be share it as well…
DEI infestation is still pervasive at Universities,How do we rectify that? (see above)…
There are eyes everywhere and the walls have ears. It will be impossible to hide.
Is UW (the University of Washington) materially different?
What about the Evergreen college in Olympia WA?
Both are “public” institutions. That’s, relying on public funding.
As a CU alum I have had run-in with the alum newsletter editor for a blatantly biased article/edition. When I commented, I received the morally superior party line. I asked them to remove the “I” from DEI as they had no intention of being inclusive.
As a former faculty in the UC system, I can attest to the race obsession my university. The dean at my unit twisted the arm of faculty and staff to read and discuss the kendi book. He held numerous brown bag discussions, even buying the book for everyone. My university spent wildly on DEI initiatives even creating a special office. Faculty evaluation had extra points for DEI contributions.
“Praise Trump [any politician] for correct actions and speak out when you disagree. Trump deserves praise for this.”
💯 %! My personal saying is hold their feet to the fire to do the “right” thing regardless of political party affiliation..
“discrimination for any reason is always wrong”. Really? I discriminate all the time. When dating, I only dated women who were young enough to have kids and that I found attractive and I discriminated against men, old women, and women I found unattractive. I’ve discriminated when in charge of sorting resumes against people who did not have the education or experience the job required. I discriminate against restaurants that have poor food or service.
Discrimination in itself is not bad and is part of being human. However, taking tax money and discriminating based on physical attributes that are not pertinent to the job is certainly wrong.
Behold! The power of tariffs!
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/
Musk exploring blockchain to curb govt spending.
“We are going to have 300 million eyeballs on our budget. If somebody is spending $16,000 for a toilet seat, everybody will know about it.”
DOGE, rather than being powerless and useless, is looking to become the most effective department in Trump’s MAGA administration. Democrats are freaking out. This is why they are launching lawsuit after lawsuit to try to stop it.
From the treasury to my crypto account. Fully in the open for you to inspect, but there’s nothing you can do about it except read it and weep.
lawsuit to try to stop it:
Abuser: Judge, Trump “Made Me” do it!
Judge: How did Trump “Make You” do so?
Abuser: He “Gave Me” TDS!
Judge: “Case Dismissed”
You end it by cutting off all forms of federal aid to universities that support in any way DEI. This means no federal monies of any kind, including student loans & pell grants.
That would do it.
No, you cut off all forms of federal aid to universities, period. Then it doesn’t matter if they support DIE or not. No federal money being used.
You also eliminate all federal involvement in student loans, and watch tuition prices come down and bloated professor salaries start shrinking. This will also help correct the problems of (1) worthless “_________ Studies” degrees and the death of people in the skilled trades.
Makes it obvious that democrats support racism.
Praise Trump for Ending DEI. But Unrooting Infestation Will Take TimeHa! Good luck!
President Trump promises to make government efficient − and he’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among othershttps://theconversation.com/president-trump-promises-to-make-government-efficient-and-hell-run-into-the-same-roadblocks-as-presidents-taft-roosevelt-roosevelt-truman-eisenhower-carter-reagan-clinton-and-bush-among-others-247957
Promises made promises kept. Barely a week and substantive change is on the move. Think what you want about the policies themselves – Trump is taking action.
Goodbye DEI, Helllooooo H1B!
Volatility is rising. Tariff wars, deportation wars, nominations wars, federal, states, and private sectors shrinkages. The banks finance speculations, but not the real economy. Volatility sent 1W SPY to a new high, a close below the high, a doji, half size bar at almost the same vol. Something is wrong.
That’s just the Golden Age starting up. Embrace it! Love me!
As long as WFH exists in corporations there will be no Me Too Drama, Drag Queen Story Hour, employers liability insurance claims, etc.
Businesses should be run as they wish. There are small tech companies that are fully WFH and have no central office – i’ve been part of that and it can be a great work experience for all parties if well managed. Why drive for 3 or 4 hours each day unnecessarily? Government is a different story – something should offset the more guaranteed stability of a gov’t job. It used to be getting paid less and having a pension vs higher wages in the private sector. Public unions largely destroyed that – now you can make better money AND benfits AND pensions vs private. Plus you get to work for 3 hours a day.
Biden administration awarded research funding to universities and others based on DEI criteria.
Trump can direct departments to do the opposite. As part of your application provide evidence that DEI factors have not been considered for any employees hire in the last 3 years. They’re a standard part of official hiring rubrics, so good luck.
Adding to my earlier comment. A previous mish post alludes to institutional capture of Bloomberg and the New York Time, to supress a study that reflects unfavorably on these ideologies.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/groundbreaking-study-on-dei-cancelled-by-bloomberg-and-new-york-times/
Shameful. They should be mine, like twitter, and TikTok. Individual capture > institutional capture.
cancer and other medical conditions
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/25/nx-s1-5274115/fda-diversity-dei-cancer-studies
I’m old enough to remember corporations and universities losing discrimination lawsuits because minorities were underrepresented, and that was taken as de facto proof of discrimination. Affirmative action was the offshoot of those lawsuits. I think we will see a return of discrimination lawsuits within the next 5-10 years.
We have civil rights cases frozen at the DOJ now, so there will be none of that nonsense.
Just because a minority, say black people, represent 13.7% of the population of the USA, DOES NOT mean that the ethnic group has to have at least that percentage representation in businesses.
It’s going to take time, yes. but it needs to happen. Watch Trump calling out Bank of America CEO at Devos, who went both feet into DEI. Destroying the company from the inside.
Only to say, DEI is very insidious for large organizations. The biggest is reducing job expectations AFTER a DEI hire to make sure they perform to expectations at year end. By then, they technically meet qualifications, but ANY OTHER applicant outside a “historically disadvantaged community” would need to meet the job expectations before being hired.
Basically, they reduce the job expectations for inadequate DEI skills to make sure they are successful.
I am surprised by this article. Its main emphasis is on affirmative action based on race and gender, i.e. illegal discrimination based on race or sex. The real major problems are 1. Indoctrination of individuals (students, staff, contractors, church members etc.) into the ideologies related to Critical Social Justice, Liberated Ethnic Studies, postmodernism, critical race theory etc. (commonly referred to as “woke” ideologies. With the targets not being informed that they are being indoctrinated, but rather being told that they are simply being taught “the truth.” 2. Ideological capture of institutions by these ideologies. 3. Ideological screening of candidates for hiring or for acceptance as students to attempt to ensure that only those who accept (or at least do not oppose) these ideologies are accepted/hired. If staff or students make it through this and are accepted and are later found to be known or potential nonbelievers (or worse yet opponents) then active efforts are in place to remove them or at least silence them.
Colleges increased state employments. There was no stopping to their expansion as long as they can charge money. Student loan debt is $1.8T. Enrollment is shrinking. State colleges have to adjust.
They will shut non performing state colleges transferring employees to other colleges. They will cut departments. They might stop building dorms for Chinese students. They might hire “full prof” for one year contract. They might cut DEI bc it’s an easy way to save money.
Well, I don’t like DEI either. It is a distraction created by corporations to divide the working class across different lines.
However, in the name of abolishing DEI, Trump is undermining civil rights legislation that were passed DECADES ago. That will definitely run into legal trouble.
I believe that the Supreme Court has ruled that any discrimination based on race, gender, or religion is unconstitutional. They have ruled that affirmative action is actually unconstitutional.
Like I heard someone say…..the best way to stop discrimination based on race, gender, or religion, is to stop discrimination based on race, gender, or religion.
Whirlaway
You appear to be misinformed.
First. Development of DEI ideology and and indoctrination methods has a long and complex history. I am not an expert, but I have read a fair amount about it. I find no participation by corporations in its development. Rather, some DEI grifters have sold it to some corporations for use in “antiracism” or bias awareness, etc training. It seems that recently more corporations are realizing that it is a counterproductive ideology and are backing away from it.
Second. The Trump order is the opposite of what you say. He is insisting that there will be no discrimination on the basis of race, sex, etc. in compliance with Federal civil rights law.
Why does the left hate merit?
Because they don’t have a high percentage of “High Merit” individuals that qualify for the jobs.
That’s why president musk is bringing foreign workers for.
DEI change is not going to be a cake walk. There are now over 21,000 job openings on Link-Den for those DEI enforcers. Most Colleges and all levels of Government are still hiring them. This DEI thinking is supported by most of the current Leaders in the Education system and they will still be around 4 years from now.
They need to be purged!
Trump isn’t “ending” DEI, he is merely suspending it for 4 years. Trump can’t run again, he’ll be out in 4 years assuming he doesn’t die from old age before then.
He did the same thing in 2016 but did it last? Nope. I doubt this time will be different. It took decades to get everyone on board the DEI train and it would take decades to get everyone off, might have been easier to do if the demographics of the USA hadn’t dramatically changed but it’s too late now. Too late.
None of this matters to me, I early retire next year and leaving the Titanic/zoo. Fine wine, food, and good times ahead.
You’ll be back on the boat when we crush the currency, stock market, and real estate market. There’s nowhere to hide… you work till you die.
That’s why you have to diversify OUTSIDE of the U.S., President Adolf Musk. The writing has been on the wall for a long time….
For now, but I bought Farage, and am supporting the Nazis in Germany. Soon I will control Europe. That will leave you with Asia and Russia, until I can get to those. Vlad’s gonna be difficult, but he won’t live forever.
How about Mars?
It will remain in 4 years if another Republican wins the white house.
Well after 2 years of tariff wars, massive inflation, bond vigilantes, war with Greenland, Canada, Mexico and whatever other chaos on a whim Trump feels, I doubt a repub gets re-elected but only time will tell.
He may not leave.
Cut all Federal funding to all colleges and universities (except US military academies). Cut all student loan programs. The power of the purse will quickly show which institutions have merit.
Couldn’t agree more!
Yes, especially cut off federal funding to Grove City College, that bastion of DEI.
Oh wait, they don’t take any fed funds of any kind at all. They want to operate without government interference or political influence. Other schools should take off their 7-year-old diapers and become adults, able to survive on their own. Yeah, it’s tough, but somebody did it.
Indeed.. raise up an army of stupid to serve my H1Bs. When Americans are living in squalor, the minuscule wages I give the Indian guys will seem like a kings ransom!
The bigger monkey in the room is that there is a shortage of workers and that is magnified by a generation of young workers that even if they weren’t DEI they have been greatly delayed by the impact.
All should cheer ending DEI but much of your readership are closer to communists so don’t expect much support.
At least six communists at the point I write this comment.
You should report them to my communist hotline, and we’ll get a team there to ship them to the camp.
In other news:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/trump-slaps-colombia-sweeping-sanctions-travel-ban-after-two-deportation-flights-are-not
Good. And they already backed down.
Is fantastic!
Did they officially accept the flights back to Columbia with their illegals?
Better yet, they are sending their own planes to help deport.
I LOVE Trump. He hasn’t even been President for a week and look what he’s accomplished!!!!!!!!!
It would have taken Joe “The Banana Slug” Biden a year to do the equivalent stuff.
But wait! I was told tariffs don’t work.
The whole silly incident could have been avoided if they had simply put parachutes on the vermin and booted them out the rear hatch.