The Ivy League is finally being held accountable for years of embracing identity politics and progressive policies.From National Review:
What Did President Kotlikoff Know, and When Did He Know It?Cornell University is a frequent subject of national headlines about DEI controversies and campus antisemitic activism. It is now under righteous attack from a conservative nonprofit pressing a variety of Trump-administration officials to investigate discrimination at the Ivy League school that is said to be “widespread, deliberate, and ongoing.”A detailed June 26 letter from the America First Policy Institute’s executive general counsel, Jessica Hart Steinmann, and Leigh Ann O’Neill, chief of staff at AFPI’s Center for Litigation, leveled a formal civil rights complaint against Cornell. It was sent to leading administration officials, including Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon. It specifies that the prestigious school’s new president, Michael Kotlikoff, is culpable for implementing policies that “reflect not just a tolerance for race- and sex-conscious practices but a deliberate, systematic effort to prioritize them.”AFPI’s complaint — brought under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as well as under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the False Claims Act — accuses the university of
engaging in a deeply embedded, systemic pattern of discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. What has been reported to us — and confirmed through internal documents, public policies, and archived webpages — reveals a university-wide culture that places an illegal identity-based ideology above equal opportunity and merit, leading to a coercive and hostile environment.
The school’s provost since 2015, Kotlikoff was named Cornell’s interim president in 2024 after the retirement of Martha Pollack. Pollack presided over an institution that gained national attention as a hotbed for disturbing anti-Israeli activism following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attacks. This March, the university’s board voted to elevate Kotlikoff, formally naming him the school’s 15th president.
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