Watching the DEI Racket Implode

Yet another Ivy League chief for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion stands exposed as an apparent plagiarist — further suggesting DEI is more a racket than anything else.

The top DEI officer at Columbia’s medical school, Alade McKen, stands accused of lifting about a fifth of his thesis from 30 other academics and copying heavily from Wikipedia, per a Washington Free Beacon report.

This comes just a week after news of a whistleblower’s complaint against Shirley Greene, a DEI officer at Harvard extension school, alleging that she plagiarized more than 40 passages of her dissertation. And weeks after Harvard’s chief DEI officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, got hit with an anonymous complaint alleging dozens of instances of plagiarism in her work over the last 15 years.

All this follows the fall of Harvard prez Claudine Gay (whose hiring was all about DEI) over dozens of plagiarism allegations, which evidently inspired a wave of freelance detective work that seems likely to keep the complaints coming against many more recent hires across academia.

And these scandals are hitting the Ivies, which presumably find the best: lmagine how low other universities have sunk as they hired thousands of DEI bureaucrats over the last decade. Let alone the publicschool systems rushing to adopt DEI as states like New Jersey mandate it.

Heck, corporate America has spent millions in its rush to impose DEI.

Ironically, higher-ed frauds may be the easiest to expose, since software now allows for relatively easy plagiarism checks, and most of academia still frowns on stealing the work of other academics.

But if these Ivy scandals keep coming (is Yale next? how about Brown?), it’ll soon be safest to bet that anyone presenting themselves as a “DEI expert” is actually just an ambitious con artist.