Northwestern University Publishes Strategies to Anchor DEI in University Policies
The article, which covered a recent school webinar, emphasized that universities should move away from political talking points and focus on implementing equity-driven policies in core areas.
On December 16, Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy published an article titled “Leading Change with Inclusion, Courage, and Global Perspective,” which outlines how universities should embed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts into their core policies while avoiding federal complications.
The article, which covered a recent school webinar, emphasized that universities should move away from political talking points and focus on implementing equity-driven policies in core areas.
The article urges universities to “Anchor equity in strategy—not politics or sentiment,” “Clarify which elements of your equity work are evolving and which values and practices remain non-negotiable,” and “Identify opportunities to fortify high-impact initiatives rather than simply defending or scaling back.”
The article also addressed efforts to conceal DEI initiatives behind the term “belonging,” but warned that this term does not go far enough.
“This framework reveals why many diversity initiatives fail—they focus solely on belonging (getting people in the door and then working to make them “fit-in”) without creating space for people to be authentically different,” states the article.
“True inclusion requires a valuing of both dimensions—belongingness and uniqueness—simultaneously.”
This trend of rebranding DEI efforts to escape the Trump administration’s crackdown is evident at several universities, even as hidden-camera missions expose it.
In October, a University of Virginia official was caught on camera admitting that the university intentionally conceals DEI programs by using varied language.
“We didn’t actually get rid of our programs and stuff like that, just like renamed them,” said the University of Virginia official regarding DEI programs.
CrtiticalRace.org uncovered several other universities that have rebranded DEI efforts, specifically using the same ‘belonging’ term that the Northwestern article utilizes.
In Georgia, Berry College’s Office of Belonging and Community Engagement offers DEI workshops, including Safe Spaces and The Bias Challenge training sessions.
At Colorado College, the “Office of Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion” was renamed to the “Office of Institutional Equity and Belonging,” but still maintains an Antiracism Book Club and the Antiracist Community Engagement Grant.
The Northwestern article concludes with a quote from the webinar speaker encouraging DEI practitioners to continue moving forward and develop even stronger initiatives in the future.
“It’s been a very difficult year for DEI practitioners or anyone that cares about DEIJ,” stated one of the webinar speakers,” states the speaker.
“But it is an incredible resurgence in resolve… we’re going to figure this out and take the opportunity to come out with something even stronger and better than what we had before.”
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I tried to make a parody of this gibberish but it was impossible.
Every so-called “university” that engages in this kind of subterfuge needs to be cut off from all Federal funding – research grants, student loans, tax breaks, everything.
And Alumni must stop making donations.
Telling on themselves and not as smart as they think.
Case in point: the unis tried to implement things other than standardized test scores for merit because racism. The “privileged” did more of those things for their resume than the poc and that became racist too.
Get two dozen people and have them scan the names of the people employed in DEI support positions VP of Inclusion or whatever and compare that to current staff. Then cross check among Univ to catch simple substation of personnel. That’s step one. Step two is review admissions then and now. If the apocalypse for minority enrollment didn’t arrive as the DEI/AA supporters claimed then they are still doing it. Investigate how and hold their institutions accountable for unconstitutional discrimination.
Idiots
If you are white, Jewish or Asian, are you grouped as “nonbelonging?”
Given the selective racial support structure, this would be apropos.
The level of defense for this racist nonsense should be correlated with the degree of leftist infiltration. I think the results would be illuminating, but not unexpected.
I’m all three. Helllllpppppp!
Jewish, tons of Germanic ancestry and Asian as in steppes of central.
“This framework reveals why many diversity initiatives fail—they focus solely on belonging (getting people in the door and then working to make them “fit-in”) without creating space for people to be authentically different,”
Safe, as long as you carefully disallow applications for the very student groups that are attractive to students who ARE “authentically” different.
islam is your new national religion
like it or not
“… School of Education and Social Policy published an article …”
An appropriate solution presents itself.
It’s worse than you might think.
Paul Rand’s annual “Festivus Report” for 2025 was released an in the mountain of government waste is this gem:
HHS gave $3.3 million to Northwestern University so they can hire 15 people, erect “scientific neighborhoods,” install “safe space ambassadors,” and form endless committees to “dismantle systemic racism.”
Taxpayers are funding this stuff at a private institution with no benefit and arguably a detriment to America.
Ooh..such smooth talkers
To be really inclusive, they should take each application for admission, assign it a number and accept students of the basis of a random number generator. You could take all elements of meritocracy out of it.
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