Moral Corruption at Community Colleges. In North Carolina and elsewhere, DEI orthodoxies have reached junior-college campuses.

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | January 8, 2024 | Jonathan Butcher

[karpov]

Imagine you are an 18-year-old who struggled to finish high school. Shakespeare, calculus, European history—none of these played to your strengths. But you found your niche in art class, performing community service, or working with your hands.

A four-year university is out of reach, yet, with a few more classes at a community college, you could make the jump to a university or be better prepared to enter the workforce.

You arrive at junior college, ready to sign up for classes, and what’s on the list? “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 101.”

At Wake Tech in Raleigh, N.C., the school’s “DEI Council” is creating a course entitled “DEI 100: Introduction Course.” The council is working with all of the school’s departments to create DEI goals. They are recruiting DEI speakers to come to campus. The council is revising DEI training for college staff. The office has awarded grants to college faculty, including $5,000 to a professor for a project entitled “Creating an Engaging, Equity-Minded, Fluid and Inclusive Syllabus.” Another $5,000 was awarded to grantees who will host a “Diversity Matters: Informational Interviewing Night.”

None of these activities will help a student be prepared to tackle chemistry or learn the skills necessary to become an electrician. Indeed, DEI programs, such as diversity training initiatives, interfere with attempts to guide students to pursue truth. For example, DEI officers sometimes lead bias-response teams on campus that investigate students after individuals make anonymous reports. Such programs chill speech and will make students less likely to speak up inside or outside of class. They also have been found to be ineffective at changing individual behavior or making individuals more tolerant of group differences. They can even make participants resentful of differences.

[karpov]

The author's Heritage Foundation report is here.

[posterchild]

leftists seem to enjoy constantly expanding acronyms. I’m currently seeing frequent mention of DEIB - Diversity Equity Inclusion Belonging.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"They also have been found to be ineffective at changing individual behavior or making individuals more tolerant of group differences."

Honestly, I'd wager these DEI programs create more resentment, more animosity, and more racial hatred than anything. You can find proof of this in the collapsing white recruitment in the armed forces. You can only tell white people "You are irredeemably racist" so many times before they tune out, get angry, don't sign up and say "why the HELL do I want to subject myself to this racist crap??

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[Vaduz]

DEI is when you get the job nd don’t have to work your number counts.

[Organic Panic]

Of course all academia is infested with wokester DIE cultists. The ONLy place blue haired queer Marxists with grievance studies critical theory degrees can get a job are schools. They are completely useless idiots who have absolutely no value to society. So they get a job teaching.

[Honorary Serb]

So much for those who say to avoid universities and go to community colleges instead!

Abolish DEI and “belonging”, and start at the top (Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Michigan, etc.)!!

[Socon-Econ]

It happened because the Republicans in the state legislature fell asleep.