Michigan State U. Reportedly Awarding DEI Scholarships for ‘Inclusive Excellence’
“a competitive small grants program which provides up to $5,000 for social science scholarship that engages thoughtfully with, and advances SSC’s mission of inclusive excellence”
This is another reminder that the academic left does not care about the public’s concerns about progressive politics in education.
Campus Reform reports:
MSU awarding DEI scholarships for ‘inclusive excellence’
A school in Michigan not only promotes DEI ideology, but is also making efforts to also subsidize it.
Michigan State University’s College of Social Science will award thousands of dollars next year under its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Small Grant Program to fund DEI scholarships.
The initiative is “a competitive small grants program which provides up to $5,000 for social science scholarship that engages thoughtfully with, and advances SSC’s mission of inclusive excellence,” according to the school’s website.
This is the first year the college is offering the grant, according to College of Social Science marketing director Rebecca Jensen. The college plans to evaluate whether the grant is successful in meeting its goals by 2025.
The college says it will give out up to five grants to assist in DEI research from faculty members holding majority appointments. Examples of research the college is looking to produce include article publication and seed funding for applications for external funding or sponsorship from businesses, charities, and nonprofits, as well as local, state, and federal governments.
The deadline for applications was Dec. 15. The funding period is from July 1 to June 30.
The information page provides the criteria the college will use in determining who receives funding. Much of the consideration will depend on the planning of the projects, the college highlighting the use of previous research, feasibility, and sound methodology as critical for applicants to consider.
The application also requests the significance of the project, the various methods its facilitators will employ, and its goals, specifically, “how it advances DEI scholarship.”
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What they’re really saying is:
(1) Move to Florida — w family and/or friends
(2) Get a Florida driver’s license so that you can qualify for in-state tuition in 12 months
(3) Get a job — There are ginormous numbers of restaurants catering to tourists and retirees all over — Learn to interact w paying customers.
(4) Enroll at , e.g., New College. Quality for $$.
(5) Be a good student — or if it’s not your thang for now, go do something else.
(6) Never return to Michigan, except to visit family. And to be reminded how glad you are that you left.
For extra credit, get conversant in Spanish — many reasonably priced options on-line
Good luck
Remember: Friends don’t let friends have anything to do with the Michigan education system.
If I’m reading correctly these are grant to finance the left.
Yup. This is one of the dodges being implemented in Texas and other venues with DEI bans in state higher ed — recharacterize now-banned DEI activities as scholastic “research.”
It again proves the point I have been making for a while: unless anti DEI laws have some teeth, these kinds of dodges are inevitable, as DEI administrators will just be thinking, “what’s the worst that can happen?”
Yes, I think we’re going to see something like that in Iowa, too.
The Board of Regents decided to eliminate DEI positions not required by law or needed for accreditation. University of Iowa staff appointed a panel to recommend how to implement the decision. It is headed up by one of the people identified to be eliminated, and about half the panel is also made up of DEI people.
No doubt the report will be, “We have carefully investigated ourselves and have determined that we are too essential to be fired, but would be willing to have our titles changed to something other than DEI.”