Proof of Academia’s Deep Rot

Whatever college students are paying for, it’s increasingly not an education. An investigation by Speech First found 165 of 248 US colleges require DEI-related classes to graduate. The study covered the nation’s 100 largest-enrollment universities, all top-ranked schools with endowments above $1 billion. At two-thirds of them, students must take at least one course of lefty propaganda.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are all fine ideals, but DEI is about dividing everyone “into identitarian groupings based on racial, sexual, and political characteristics . . . [Students] only see each other as either the ‘oppressor’ or the ‘oppressed,’ ” the report notes.

In another sign of how deep the rot runs in academia, the Anti-Defamation League’s recent “Campus Antisemitism Report Card” found only two of 85 reviewed universities (Brandeis University in Massachusetts and Elon University in North Carolina) are doing enough to fight anti-Jewish bigotry to warrant an A grade. Thirteen schools, including (unsurprisingly) Harvard and MIT, earned Fs. Columbia and Cornell got Ds; NYU, a C.

DEI and antisemitism go hand-in-hand: DEI slots Jews into the oppressor camp, while campus antisemitism is overwhelmingly a left-wing affair, fueled by deranged claims that Israel is a “settler-colonialist” project.

Fact is, most schools have been “colonized” by radicals who put ideology above education and divert ever-higher tuition costs to administrators dedicated to DEI and other thought control (of faculty as well as students.)

No wonder most Americans no longer think a college degree is worth the cost.