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Some Diversity Staffers Are Quitting Higher Education Citing Lack Of Support

“employees interviewed for this article said that more often, university leaders show a lack of appreciation and support for their work, leading them and many of their colleagues to leave higher ed burned out and disillusioned”

I would be lying if I suggested I felt bad for these "diversity" employees, but the whole thing was always a scam and was going to eventually fade away into nothingness. Exactly where it belongs. There was never any real broad based public support for this. Just the typical loud and obnoxious woke minority expecting everyone to bend to their wishes.

Compounding those challenges is an increasingly aggressive political attack on DEI initiatives by conservatives across the country. Texas lawmakers have proposed legislation to ban DEI work in public higher ed outright. Last week, Oklahoma’s new Republican superintendent of public instruction issued a letter requiring the state’s public colleges to account for “every dollar spent” on DEI in a potential effort to curb that spending. And on Tuesday, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to defund all DEI offices across the state’s higher education system, the latest in a long string of political maneuvers that includes the recent appointment of two vocal anti-DEI activists to the New College of Florida’s Board of Trustees.

Now the left would love to suggest that this is a problem with the intolerant right. But programs that diversity, equity, and other similar nonsense are largely unpopular and laws being passed to dump the entire concept have widespread support. This is not a 50% plus one sort of pushing marginally popular social agenda on these colleges. This is an attempt to literally pull these schools back into the reality of how the world works. For those of us who live and work in the real world, we can assure those children in these colleges that the same complaints that garner them attention in school will garner them a severance and time to clear out their desk in the real world.

The one recurring theme to all of this indoctrination in our learning institutions is the fact that most of it has been taking place along the margins and out of plain sight. How long did teachers argue that they were not in fact teaching CRT or pushing the idea of systemic racism when that was exactly what they were doing. How many schools have gotten away form advanced placement or accelerated classes using budgets and such as an excuse. How many advanced schools have gotten away from merit based admissions and moved towards racial equity by quietly tweaking their criteria to fit that mold. When questioned, they always deny what we all know these things are about.

Consider the recent news of the various schools not informing their students of National Merit awards. This did real harm to high achieving students, costing them scholarships and possibly even costing them admissions to colleges. This was hidden from everyone, but done under the pretense of not offending those who did not accomplish the same awards. WTF?

All of this is classic modern day lazy liberal beliefs, where they seek to replace a merit and competency based culture with some form of equity of outcome based utopia. What it really is would be an unwillingness to accept that sometimes you have to work to achieve an equal outcome, and if someone else works harder, they probably achieve more. Better to suggest that lazy liberals are not responsible for the fact that their liberal arts degree qualifies them to be a barista at Starbucks, while the business major who took things serious is the general manager of multiples stores a few years after graduation.

Better to try to make it about race, gender, or anything but merit and teach people that such outcomes are unfair to all those marginalized or oppressed members of society. Color your hair green, identify as a peter-pan-asexual-cis-gendered-potato, and suddenly you are no longer responsible if you cannot find a job. This is society's fault for not allow you to fit in.

All this can only go on so far. Eventually there is real work that will need to be done by the upcoming generations. Eventually the boomers will all retire and someone will need to be an adult. If we allow these children run our American businesses like we run our schools, most everyone will be working for the Chinese or Indians or someone from any other country where they still take education seriously and understand that it is supposed to prepare people for the real world. Because we need to prepare our children to live in the real world, not make them believe it can all change if the whine, cry, complain, and protest enough.