Tag: Diversity equity inclusion

State AGs Tell Top 100 CEOs That SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling Applies to Them Too

State attorneys general from Tennessee, Kansas, and 11 other states put 100 of America’s largest corporations on notice that, following the Supreme Court decision against racial discrimination at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, private companies would be held to the same standard.  In a July 13 letter to CEOs of Fortune 100 companies,…


What Is a Community?

Commentary I was given cause recently to reflect on the meaning of “community.” What is community? Most people would reflexively answer that it is where you live, your locality, and that would not be entirely incorrect. But, what is a community really? Must you have a home in your community? Can you be in more…


The DEI Invasion: Ideological Creep in Law and Medicine

​Commentary Yes, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a measure that will ban the state’s public colleges and universities from spending taxpayer money on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs. Yes, the Texas House just passed a bill that would follow suit, forbidding public institutions of higher learning from funding both DEI…


Florida Bans Diversity Programs and Pronouns

A set of Florida bills ban diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as well as the use of personal pronouns. On May 3, Florida’s Republican legislators passed a collection of bills that cut funding for diversity programs and banned teachers from using preferred pronouns or names that don’t correspond to their assigned birth sex. The sister…


Iowa Seeking to Ban Woke Diversity Offices in Higher Education

An Iowa House bill is looking to prevent diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices at public higher education institutions, which the bill’s supporters claim is necessary for boosting academic excellence. House File 616 prohibits a public institution of higher education from expending funds appropriated by the general assembly or any other funds to “establish, sustain,…


Iowa Seeking to Ban Diversity Offices in Higher Education

An Iowa House bill is looking to prevent diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices at public higher education institutions, which the bill’s supporters claim is necessary for boosting academic excellence. House File 616 prohibits a public institution of higher education from expending funds appropriated by the general assembly or any other funds to “establish, sustain,…


John Robson: Attempts to Trivialize Chinese Election Meddling Will Have Serious Consequences

Commentary Diversity, we are told monotonously, is what unites us in Canada. And it is good up to a point, indeed vital. But a society that is not united around certain principles, for instance that foreign tyrants subverting our elections is intolerable, will neither survive nor deserve to. So are we? I see an ominous…


American School Counselor Association Teaching Radicalism, Activist Reveals

The American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) certification test teaches critical race theory (CRT) and radical gender ideology as facts, according to documents obtained by parental rights activist Alvin Lui. “This isn’t just like 10 or 15 percent of school counselors that are very ideological and very radical,” he told The Epoch Times. “The whole system…


Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Hires Get Fired at Higher Rates Than Regular Workers, Says Research

Workers engaged in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) roles have lost jobs at a higher rate than other employees since 2020, with Amazon registering the most number of such terminations, according to workforce analytics firm Revolio Labs. Attrition rates for DEI roles at over 600 companies that have laid off workers since late 2020 outpaced…


Trustees at North Carolina’s Flagship University Want School Based on Intellectual Freedom

When North Carolina’s flagship university board of trustees voted to start a new school based on intellectual freedom to counter “woke” ideology, the backlash was swift. On Jan. 26, it was widely reported the board of trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted unanimously for the administration to accelerate its development…