DEI’s House of Cards Is Falling Down

Bias-response teams, typically housed in campus DEI divisions, are increasingly being recognized as a threat to free speech.

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The library of Columbia University in New York City as students walk the campus in 2017.

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For years, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) “experts” have convinced college presidents to make DEI part of campus life. But lawmakers, federal investigators, and judges are not persuaded. They point to DEI offices’ racial bias and Orwellian programs as reasons to close the departments.

DEI staffers have not proved to be experts in free-speech law. Nor are they skilled in writing school policies that protect free expression. And their policies and programs have not created “inclusive” environments at colleges.

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Jonathan Butcher

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman Senior Fellow in Education at the Heritage Foundation and author of Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth.

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