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Stop Wasting Money on DEI in Education

People walk past Columbia University in New York City, October 30, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters)

The Left is very good at using money taken from taxpayers to advance its agenda, and nowhere is that more evident than in our schools.

In today’s Martin Center article, Magdalene Horzempa looks at the “dollars and cents” of DEI:

DEI takes several forms, such as communication efforts, outreach, programming, research, reporting, and staffing. At institutions across the country, it has permeated not only obvious areas of university activity and administration but also areas of the university where its true cost remains hidden. At last, however, institutions have begun to wake up and see that DEI has proven to be not just ineffective and harmful but counterproductive and extremely expensive.

The good news is that some states are stopping the waste and returning the funds to actual education rather than miseducation.

Read the whole thing.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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