Some Colleges Have Raked in Millions in Donations for DEI Since 2021
“Among the biggest funders of DEI is the University of Michigan, which raised more than $98 million for DEI initiatives, according to the report.”
It’s easy to forget that much of this has been driven by the George Floyd furor.
Campus Reform reports:
These colleges received $300M+ in donations for DEI
According to a recent report, American colleges and universities have received more than $300 million in donations earmarked for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs since 2021.
The study, published by the nonprofit organization Defending Education on April 22, tracked 281 DEI-related funds across 130 colleges and universities, finding a total of $373 million going to diversity programs and initiatives.
“While some of the funding has been tracked down via ‘Day of Giving’ style campaign webpages,” the organization explained, “the vast majority of the money has been traced through university announcements, webpages, and reports.”
The colleges and universities that the organization tracked are located across 44 states and Washington, D.C.
“American universities, especially in the wake of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, have established funds that focus on the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) inside the institutions,” Defending Education stated in its summary of its findings. “The purpose of these funds range from the establishment of identity-based scholarships to funding DEI related programming on campuses.”
Defending Education found that, while Trump’s anti-DEI push has encouraged schools to “take down webpages” and “halt DEI related programmings,” they have not necessarily eliminated their DEI programs entirely. In some cases, the organization explained, colleges have merely rebranded the DEI initiatives to remove the controversial language.
Among the biggest funders of DEI is the University of Michigan, which raised more than $98 million for DEI initiatives, according to the report. Additionally, a foundation at the University of Connecticut donated $23 million and the University of Delaware raised $21 million for DEI purposes.
“It is revealing how lucrative it has been for universities to advance DEI programming and race-based scholarships,” Defending Education Researcher Rhyen Staley told Campus Reform about the results of the study. “This also shows how deeply entrenched DEI is and why it is proving to be difficult for those inside the institutions to part ways with it.”
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My ex-University is such a pile of crap.
George Floyd and many others like him have received justice, now these universities should receive justice with a 200% tax on DEI income.
Academic institutions have always been indoctrination centers to some degree, because that’s where the naivety is. The serious students figure this out pretty quickly, and usually don’t waste too much time and energy pursuing the BS, unless they are already too unstable to differentiate. Those defectives become the new recruits, and organizations who value young zealots will pay handsomely for access to them. But they only constitute a small fraction of the student body. It’s sad that the radical recruitment system has placed the education of so many of those students at risk, but chalk that up to yet another failure of the academic leadership.