Watchdog Group Finds DEI Course Mandates Cost Arizona Taxpayers And Students - Arizona Daily Independent
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As more and more corporations are rejecting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies and phasing out many related programs, Arizona's universities continue to push the discriminatory materials and messaging on students - and at a high cost.
A government watchdog group, the Goldwater Institute, recently released a report which found that taxpayers and undergraduate students are being forced to subsidize "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" (DEI) course mandates at public universities to the tune of nearly $2 billion and 40 million hours.
The report found:
- DEI general education course mandates ran up students and state taxpayers a bill of at least (and likely far more than) $1.8 billion in tuition and state appropriations over each four-year period in which undergraduate student bodies must complete these requirements.
- The current undergraduate population at public universities, meanwhile, will spend at least 40 million student hours satisfying DEI general education course requirements.
- The watchdog organization Parents Defending Education (PDE) recently revealedover $1 billion in federal grant funding has been distributed by the U.S. Department of Education to promote DEI in K-12 schools and universities across the country in the past four years alone. This massive federal footprint is dwarfed by the in-kind contributions forcibly extracted from students and state taxpayers for DEI efforts, all under the watch of their local lawmakers in both red and blue states alike.
- Even uncontroversial-sounding DEI labels in conservative-leaning states, such as Iowa State University's recently renamed "U.S. Cultures and Communities" requirement, directs students to explore "intersectional understandings of diversity" and "analyze systemic oppression and personal prejudice and their impact on marginalized communities and the broader U.S. society."
- Other, more nakedly political DEI general education courses, such as the University of Virginia's "'Hateinnany': Fascism, Antifascism, and the Global Far Right," even offer course descriptions explicitly naming President Donald Trump in the context of "far right politics" and "fascism."
The Goldwater Institute argues that by teaching that modern American society is systemically bigoted against various minority groups, DEI trains Americans to view themselves as victims of a rigged system, telling them that the only way to remedy past discrimination is by discriminating against "privileged" groups today.
The Institute alleges that with faculty governing bodies having abdicated their responsibility to promote intellectual inquiry free of ideological coercion—and university regents opting to ignore this development—state lawmakers now have an obligation to their taxpayers and students to intervene.
The Institute offers suggestions for ending what it believes are problematic policies:
1) building on the work of Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation successfully eliminating DEI classes from the general education catalog at state universities, and
2) adopting the Goldwater Institute's Freedom From Indoctrination Act, which eliminates all DEI course requirements in public universities at all levels—including degree specific requirements. Under this legislation, only students actively seeking a degree in fields focused upon racial and gender identify shall find themselves steeped in the current avalanche of politicized DEI ideology.
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There is a lot of money to be saved.
DEI must die and woke revoked
It was unconstitutional and it divided Americans.
The Supreme Court overturning racist admission policies and the majority of the country being perfectly fine with it was a major shift.
Ending DEI is a historic accomplishment. Pretty amazing to where we were as country just a few years ago. Kudos to the Rufos and DeSantis of the world who put in the work and started the process while Trump was out of office. As others have noted on the social media, the amazing thing is low little pushback their has been from progressives. Just token protests. For the most part they want it gone to, but can't really say that because of the amount of power the racialist extremists still possess in far left circles. But it's less power than it was last week and even if Democrats recapture the Presidency and reinstitute their racist regime, it's now been clear it will all be taken away as soon they leave office.
A true shift in the Overton window.
A fair amount of Trump voters, perhaps the majority, feel that white people are the "real" victims of racism. This has been shown in a number of polls. It doesnt speak well for this country.
Show us some of those polls. Reality trumps your conspiracy theories. These DEI policies give unfair advantages to those deemed to be "marginalized and underrepresented" in American society. On the contrary, minorities are doing just fine at all level inf multiple fields of endeavor.
Time after time, it's been proven in court that the government racially discriminated against white and asian students. Why do you deny it?
It's amazing to watch. The racialists go on an on about how important this is , then turn around and deny it has any actually real world impact.
Do you think whites are the real victims of racism?
real victims of racism?
What does that even mean? What's a "real" victim of racism? Do you discriminate on that basis too?
Yes or no. Is a student who is denied admission to a school because of their race a victim of racism or not?
Anyone can be a victim of racism. People who feel whites are the more prevalent victim distort reality.
Great. So we agree whites can be real victims of racism.
Do you also agree that a student who is denied admission to a school because of their race is a victim of racism?
Why can't you answer my question?
Do you also agree that a student who is denied admission to a school because of their race is a victim of racism?
An opinion piece? AND from 2017? Really?
The Arizona Daily Independent is a very far right publication whose reporting must sometimes be taken with a grain of salt. Their reporting is of mixed accuracy, but in this case I believe it. One must also consider that Woke/DEI influence is largely in the major Arizona metropolitan areas of the state which are liberal Democrat controlled while the remainder of the state is largely rural and more conservative in scope. The said costs are being generated by said Democrat controlled metropolitan areas and filtering out to the rest of the state who are stuck with costs as well.
Oh my, the poor white folks have suffered so much from racism, how do they manage to make it through the day.
So you Sean and Vic believe that DEI divides people. IMO, and of course I’m not white I’ve experienced a much different American then you have. To me what divided us was minorities being treated like sub human if that good in virtually every walk of life by many white America and it starts the day we are born. Has there been improvement in that, yes there has but still a long way to go and with Trump and his ant DEI agenda we are headed backward and that can be seen on NT by some of its members.
So if you’re anti DEI sounds a lot like ‘’stop racism against whites’’ could you please tell me how much racism you faced and in what field, education, work, your civil rights, your life in danger what if any aspect of American life have you been held out of because of your color.
Cheers
True suffering is trying to cope with what happened to ancestors you never met.
It's literally the point. Denying it is is like denying water is wet.
ith Trump and his ant DEI agenda we are headed backward and that can be seen on NT by some of its members
Sure. Reducing people to their biological characteristics, teaching them that their race is defines them and treating them on that basis will surely end end racism.
Conservatives like to use the past when it suits them , "white Europeans created civilization", and dismiss the past when it is used to point out things like racism that has lasted for centuries.
What a totally ignorant comment, you have no idea do you. I could not go to a white school, I was forced into an Indian Boarding School for over 5 years. We were not allowed into many stores, restaurants that would not serve us, couldn’t live in a white neighborhood on and on and one of the most racist times was in the state you live in where the. ‘’Walleye Wars’’ took place, got shot at, harassed, etc. They had signs that read, ‘’save a walleye spear a squaw’’ or ‘’save two walleye spear a pregnant squaw.’’ Or try living next to a sundown town, your a uniformed white so you probably don’t have any idea about that. So the next time you think that you know so much you better take your ass back a couple of steps and STFU. Oh, and in your state we are called timber niggers is that an expression that you use, Sean?
They will tell you that is all in the past kavika. No whites think like that anymore.
Oh yeah, but the problem with that is they are lying and I can take them/him in his own state and damn sure him the real world for us.
The extent of these \no one thinks like that anymore, was vastly underestimated, till our hero came about and the birthism was an ism that jostled sum of the isms that became the schisms between mice and men, cause like the pie eyed piper, YTrump has let them out again...
Many topics within our politics are complicated. This one is not. One can either have a legally color-blind society in which we are regarded as equal by the government, or one can have DEI, affirmative action, privilege hierarchies, and the rest.
You have to understand, that when a segment of society of like-minded, political and social beliefs, sincerely hold the opinion that another segment of our society are inferior, for no other reason than the color of their skin, and this segment needs their "help" in order to succeed, they are going to try to desperately defend their beliefs, and when called out on the obvious error of those beliefs, they will try to muddy the waters by adding other "groups" to deflect from the core of their racism.
Right, it can not be both ways
What we have had in the past is a white dominated society where minorities were at best 2nd class citizens if they were not murdered. Contrary to MAGA believe who insist that dems are still the party racism, history says otherwise as I have explained in depth on NT. For every move forward whether it be a law pass (civil rights act etc) or a shift in society there was a step backwards. With many laws passed in the lat 50 0r 60 year minorities started to get a even playing field, EG voting rights act, civil rights act, Indian religious act, ICWA now that minorities are able to do much better because of laws passed by US congress what we see is that many white folks seem to think that there is no racism and that these laws such as DEI are disadvantaging white people. Which, IMO is pure unadulterated BS. So the back lash begins to move back to the pre DEI days.
There is one thing that you and other conservative seems to not understand while you complain about DEi et al is that on this site a common phrase from the collective you is, ‘’A DEI Hire’’ it seems that you do not understand that that is insulting/ignorant/racist and your telling the collective us that we do not attain anything by merit is it all a gift from the government. It is sad the your thinking an and world view is not only slanted but condesending and bigoted. A recent case is the fires in LA where the first attacks old she/he is a DEI hire, the LA fire chief, gay and the mayor black. There are plenty of you on NT that rolled out of your mouths.
This has been repeated time and time again on NT. So, Sean by your first comment to me you have no idea about the past, current shit minorities have put up with and that is not a surprise and secondly I don’t see you actually taking the time to learn what is better way. But miracles do happen.
you should be mad at the people who believe you can't compete without government help.
sad the your thinking an and world view is not only slanted but condesending and bigoted
Orwellian nonsense. I'm the one who thinks minorities are capable of competing without the government, or anyone else, engaging in racial discrimination. You, apparently, aren't.
As Cooke said in the link above: “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” One either believes this, or one does not — and, if one does, one can allow no “but” to qualify the affirmation. There is no such thing as good racial discrimination, or salutary legal segregation, or the friendly imposition of caste. If one desires to treat people equally, one must treat people equally and leave it at that."\
You can think anything you want. The history of this country tells a different story.
Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn’t Declined in 25 Years
Broadly, our meta-analysis of callback rates from all existing field experiments showed evidence of discrimination against both black and Latino applicants. Since 1990 white applicants received, on average, 36% more callbacks than black applicants and 24% more callbacks than Latino applicants with identical résumés.
When it comes to Latinos, we found some evidence of a decline in discrimination over the past 25 years. Because of the small number of field experiments including Latinos, however, statistical tests indicate the evidence of decline is inconclusive.
For black applicants we found no change in hiring rates over time. In the figure below, the dots represent results from 21 studies contrasting white and black applicants, based on a total of 42,708 applications for 20,990 positions. The line shows the overall trend. The line slants slightly upward, but it’s statistically indistinguishable from a flat line.
so you believe minorities can't compete without the government actively discriminating in their favor?
Short answer is obviously yes, they do not.
No reason that I should, you and your coharts are the ones screaming DEI hire at minorities on NT, and you know damn well that is true so who is the one that gives no credit to us for our accomplishments other to yell, DEI.
Please Sean, that ‘’apparently, aren’t’’ is one step below stupid. I think minorities are quite capable of doing accomplishing anything with a level playing field, unfortunately that hasn’t been the case nor is it the case today that why the laws and DEI you seem to despise are in existence.
Wonderful quote, let me know when the US gets to that point, I’ll be happy to join the parade, until then I’ll live in the current world and keep plugging away and you can pretend that you know something about racism and pontificate about how it is.
BTW, you never did answer my questions to you in my first comment, and that makes the answer obvious to anyone in the real world.
You know Sean I’ve been thinking over the DEI thing and it occurred to me that Trump used DEI for his appointments. Think about it, Hegspeth, Noem, Gabbard are all excellent DEI picks, they have no qualifications at all except for loyalty to Trump..
Oh hell, add in Kennedy and Huckabee, Trumps really got that DEI thing rolling.
MAGA DEI FOREVER.