Education Department Orders an End to Illegal Racial Discrimination
By Stanley K. Ridgley, PhD
The Department of Education has finally ruled to end illegal race-based discrimination at all levels of education in the United States–K-12 and colleges and universities–by declaring so-called DEI in violation of US Civil Rights laws.
In a late-night February 14 letter, the Department swept away discriminatory policies that violate civil rights laws, including at private institutions that receive federal dollars. Said Insidehighered on the letter:
“[A]cting assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor outlined a sweeping interpretation of the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which struck down affirmative action. While the decision applied specifically to admissions, the Trump administration believes it extends to all race-conscious spending, activities and programming at colleges.
This is, practically speaking, the end of DEI on our college campuses.
The end of a scourge of DEI racialist ideology that metastasized quickly in 2020 with the growth of valueless bureaucracies staffed by lavishly compensated mandarins and of “trainings” consisting of racialist and pseudoscientific twaddle. That’s all done now, and I explain why this is a phenomenal event in the history of American higher education in my new book DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century almost Toppled Higher Education.
Colleges have until the end of the month to purge their campuses of racialist DEI and to begin repairing the immense damage that these programs have done to higher education.
Early response from DEI bureaucrats, whose sinecures are threatened, has been predictably negative, but that doesn’t matter.
Here is the landmark letter from the Department of Education, followed by commentary from Insidehighered:
Insidehighered provided early coverage of the letter’s impact, and here it is. The article can be accessed directly HERE.