Zealous DEI Programs Land a University in Court. A Penn State Abington professor’s “hostile work environment” lawsuit is under way.

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | March 6, 2024 | George Leef

[karpov]

For the last 20 years or so, many colleges and universities have embraced the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology by hiring administrators to promote it throughout the school. Although DEI might sound benign, its fundamental beliefs are not; they’re hostile to the foundations of Western civilization, including individualism, private property, free enterprise, and logic. Moreover, many people who are drawn to DEI positions are steeped in racial hostility.

That toxic brew has landed Penn State Abington in federal court.

Zack De Piero was a professor who taught English and composition courses. He had been with Penn State Abington since 2018, each year receiving an “excellent” faculty evaluation. He is no longer on the faculty, however. Due to repeated hostile treatment from his superiors, he was driven to resign in 2022.

What had started as a good relationship with the school began to sour with “professional development” meetings for faculty members where administrators addressed racial issues in broad terms. To achieve “equity,” for example, professors were encouraged to incorporate race into their grading. Rather than grading students purely on the quality of their work, they were admonished to give elevated grades to minority students.

To make the point more emphatic, the chair of the English department emailed De Piero (and two white colleagues), stating, “Racist structures are quite real in assessment … For me, the racism is in the results if the results draw a color line.” To avoid trouble with her, De Piero had to abandon his colorblind approach to grading.

Matters got much worse following the death of George Floyd in 2020, when Damian Fernandez (at the time, the university’s chancellor) insisted that all faculty and staff join a Zoom meeting, a “Conversation on Racial Climate.”

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Liz]

THE DEI THAT DID-IN HARVARD’s PRESIDENT-—source: Fr thread

Harvard deleted nearly all DEI materials from its website following President Claudine Gay’s disastrous congressional testimony, in which she declined to say whether advocating for the genocide of Jews is permissible on campus. Recovered DEI documents through an Internet archive show
<><>DEI urges students to internalize the Critical Race Theory narrative,
<><>that America is systemically racist,
<><>that it is riddled with white-baiting code words
<><>words like “police brutality,” “white supremacist violence,” “weaponization of whiteness.”
<><>students are told to “unpack” their so-called “white” and “male” privileges,
<><>to consider their “white fragility,”
<><>ghetto-nurtured DEI says white privilege accrues to whites.
<><>b/c of a society that protects and insulates them from race-based stress.

[ComputerGuy]

I just love using all my diverse technology.

[bray]

It is important to discriminate against Whites to stop racism.

[blackdog]

Penn State, where you send your dog to be raped. Really. No sarcasm in this post.

[daniel1212]

DEI = Deceptiveness, Exclusion, Interrogation