Trump Abandons the Field on DEI
In February 2025, a newly installed Trump Department of Education (ED) issued a so-called Dear Colleague Letter. The letter put educational institutions on notice that ED intended to enforce the…
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“Civil Rights Act”
Universities Sued Over Racial Discrimination in Hiring
So strong is the desire for “diversity” (at least racial diversity) in higher education that school and college officials often turn a blind eye to the law against racial discrimination…
Let the Left Copy Hillsdale
Since the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights continues to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act as interpreted in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the discussion…
Duke Health Hit With Civil-Rights Complaint
Duke University Health System (DUHS) is the subject of a federal civil-rights complaint filed by Virginia-based medical nonprofit Do No Harm. The complaint, filed on March 19 with the U.S.…
N.C. Universities Are Still Discriminating By Race
Eleven universities across North Carolina have partnered with the PhD Project, which has been discriminating on the basis of race and ethnicity since approximately 1994. Although the PhD Project recently…
“Majority Groups” Are Seizing Anti-Discrimination Law
We are witnessing a sea change around DEI, “wokeness,” political correctness, and the like. For now, the anti-woke and anti-DEI forces have the upper hand. A big question looms in…
From Retaliation to Reform
You have undoubtedly heard about cases where intolerant administrators target professors who fail one of the ideological litmus tests that increasingly characterize higher education. Such instances have become commonplace, perhaps…
Why Are Fair-Admissions Activists Threatening New Lawsuits?
Mere law has never impeded the Left’s pursuit of its political objectives. The same pattern holds in our universities. Indeed, achieving political objectives now appears to be the primary aim…
Racial Discrimination at the University of South Carolina
For several years, the National Association of Scholars (NAS), where I work, has monitored the rise of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) in higher education. DEI entered the mainstream somewhere…
The Diversity Distortion
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a professor of physics, submitted a hoax article to Social Text, a journal of postmodern cultural studies, which published it. Last year, in what became known…