Idaho State Board of Education Bans DEI Job Statements in Higher Ed
“It’s another sign that the fight against woke ideology in higher education is escalating, and policymakers should keep their foot on the gas pedal”
Is the pendulum finally starting to swing in the other direction? People seem to finally understand what’s happening.
The College Fix reports:
Idaho bans DEI job statements in higher ed, think tank says DEI offices should go next
The Idaho State Board of Education recently banned universities from requesting or requiring diversity statements from job applicants at Idaho’s four-year public institutions, and one liberty-minded think tank scholar suggests it’s time to go a step further.
Anna Miller, policy director of the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Center for American Education, said in an interview this month that the board’s unanimous decision, made in April, was a positive step toward ridding the state’s universities of biased ideologies.
But it’s not enough, she said.
“It’s another sign that the fight against woke ideology in higher education is escalating, and policymakers should keep their foot on the gas pedal,” Miller told The College Fix via email.
Miller said policymakers must now recognize that DEI offices associated with diversity statements are also harmful.
“Idaho’s public universities waste millions of dollars annually on campus DEI bureaucracies employing at least 57 administrators,” she said.
She urged the board to abolish DEI offices altogether, saying, “If left unchecked, DEI bureaucracies will swallow universities whole.”
The Center for American Education “works with state legislators, policymakers, and parents to promote transformational change to our state and national education system so that it best serves the families and students who utilize it,” its website states.
The University of Idaho currently maintains an Office of Equity and Diversity. Boise State University also maintains a DEI division.
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Rationality prevails in “fly over country” while irrationality prevails in the “sophisticated” coastal states. One has to be really educated to be really stupid.
Higher education, since the 1960’s, removes more knowledge from student’s brains than it ever puts in.
I was in “j-school” in 1976, and even still by then, all my professors droned on about was Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam. I don’t recall ANY real, constructive journalism instruction. Just oohing-and-awing about Woodward and Bernstein. THAT was the highwater mark in journalism…
I left school, got a machinists job at TI in Dallas, and never looked back.
> One has to be really educated to be really stupid.
Great quote there, Jack. (Or at least a paraphrase.) I see you’ve read Charlie Kirk’s book “The College Scam”. That’s where I saw that remark, in the context of the trans insanity. “You have to be really educated to say something to manifestly stupid.”
A cup of rationality thrown into a sea of idiocy. My former alma mater still requires political litmus tests, so I send my donations to Hillsdale.