Last week I wrote about Janique Sanders, the Assisstant Director of Leadership and Community Engagement at UNC-Charlotte. Sanders was caught on video by undercover journalists for Accuracy in Media explaining that UNC was still promoting DEI despite a vote by the Board of Governors last year that put an end to the practice. “We’ve renamed,...
MIT has announced that it will shutting down its main DEI office after a lengthy review that began in January 2024. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced it will shut down its DEI office, joining a raft of universities scrambling to scale back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity...
Today seems to be the day for undercover videos. I wrote about the one featuring David Hogg earlier today. This afternoon Accuracy in Media has posted their own video about the persistence of DEI at the University of North Carolina. We’ll get to the video in a moment but the backstory here is that last...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Days after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency sent an email to the...
Last month the NY Times looked at corporate filings and tried to gauge how they had handled DEI issues over time. What they found was that mentions of DEI really accelerated in 2020 and peaked in 2022 but were now on the way down. By 2022, over 90 percent of the S&P 500 had language...
The White House’s anti-DEI decrees are too “vague and confusing” for educators to follow, the judge said. A federal judge has placed a partial injunction on the Trump administration’s attempts to limit schools and universities from enacting policies or curricula promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), finding that an executive order from President Donald Trump...
Clearly things have changed in the battle over DEI. Just a few years ago the left clearly had the upper hand on college campuses, in public schools, in corporate boardrooms and in government offices. DEI books were bestsellers and it was just assumed DEI had a firm hold on the culture. But even before Trump...
A few days ago, there was a bit of a tempest in a teapot when our representative to the NATO military committee, a female US Navy admiral named Shoshana Chatfield, was ‘forced out,’ as the media decided to put it. Now, the pretty sympathetic coverage the story got was overshadowed by the noise of the tariff...
Last week the remnants of the Department of Education sent letters to state leaders across the country requiring them to certify within 10 days that they were compliant with the Trump administration’s view of DEI in schools. As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to certify that they...
“Diversity is a superpower here in New York City,” said NYC Public Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos. New York state leaders have rejected the Trump administration’s directive to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in public schools, stating they will uphold these programs even if it risks the loss of federal education funding. “Diversity is...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Jim Lively wants to install rooftop solar panels on his family’s local food market, just minutes from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. Those panels could help power the RV campground they want to open next to the...
The Trump administration’s threat comes as many school districts are preparing their budgets for the next school year. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The U.S. Department of Education is giving state education agencies 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in any practices...
When Mark Zuckerberg terminated Meta’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring and training employees and procuring suppliers in January 2025, he forged “inroads with the incoming Trump administration,” abandoned Meta’s founding ethos of open innovation, and dramatically realigned how the tech giant will now do business, as critics like Bärí A. Williams, former...