MIT recognizes that DEI is worthless in the hiring process -- in fact it is detrimental in obtaining the best faculty. Elite university eliminates DEI hiring requirement: 'They don't work' MIT scraps diversity statement from faculty hiring process https://www.foxnews.com/media/elite-university-eliminates-dei-hiring-requirement-work
Another elite university president resigns after being called out for DEI policies running amok and continuous antisemitism on campus. Cornell president Martha Pollack stepping down June 30 https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/may-9-anti-israel-protests
How come so many DEI hires have no academic integrity? MIT Hired Six New Diversity Deans. Two of Them Are Serial Plagiarists, Complaint Alleges https://freebeacon.com/campus/mit-h...hem-are-serial-plagiarists-complaint-alleges/
Additionally how come so many BLM / DEI Leaders are financial scammers? Former DEI Leader Sentenced for Multi-Million Dollar Fraud at Facebook and Nike Barbara Furlow-Smiles faces over five years in prison after a major embezzlement scandal involving two major corporations. https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-over-five-years/ Barbara Furlow-Smiles, once a prominent figure in corporate diversity initiatives at Facebook and Nike, has been handed a 63-month prison sentence for siphoning off more than $5 million from these companies. The sentencing took place on Monday, leaving the former DEI leader with a hefty price to pay for her criminal actions. The judge, Steven Grimberg, also mandated that Furlow-Smiles repay the stolen amount in full, totaling $5,102,838.08. During her emotional address to the court, she expressed the gravity of her situation, declaring it the fight of her life. This sentencing comes after Furlow-Smiles admitted her guilt in December, acknowledging the sophisticated fraud scheme she orchestrated. Starting in 2017 at Facebook, she abused her access to corporate finances to support a lavish lifestyle across California and Georgia, indulging in luxuries from specialty portraits to preschool tuition. Despite her defense arguing the pressures of being a primary provider in an expensive new city pushed her to these extremes, the prosecution highlighted the ongoing and calculated nature of her fraud, which did not cease even after her move to Nike. Here, she continued her deceitful practices, stealing over $121,000. Family members and friends stood by Furlow-Smiles during the sentencing, pleading for mercy and emphasizing her character and contributions. Despite their efforts, the judge pointed out the repeated and deliberate nature of her crimes, noting the adverse impact these actions have had on the reputation of DEI initiatives. As part of her sentencing, Furlow-Smiles is granted time to receive medical treatment and spend the summer with her family before her incarceration begins. She remains under supervision until she reports to prison on July 22, starting her path towards restitution and rehabilitation.
DEI is finally dying in the US — and response to Oct. 7 Hamas attacks highlighted its hypocrisy https://nypost.com/2024/05/29/us-news/dei-is-dying-and-response-to-oct-7-highlighted-the-hypocrisy/ DEI is dying — and chaos following October 7th might be the final blow. After exploding by a factor of 300 in 2020, mentions of DEI in quarterly earnings calls have tumbled this year to just a quarter of its peak three years ago, according to an Axios report. Meanwhile, major companies like Zoom and Tesla have slashed DEI staff brought in to foster workplace diversity and provide employee inclusion training. Experts like Dr. Tabia Lee say that the DEI industry is rightfully shrinking. Experts attribute the decline to a cooling moral panic since the racial unrest of the summer of 2020, as well as the realization that DEI can foment toxicity —especially in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel. “Everyone is starting to see the harmful effect, especially of the critical social justice form of DEI,” Dr. Tabia Lee, a former college DEI director, told The Post. “They’re starting to see the roots of it — that these DEI professionals have zero respect for individualism, zero respect for viewpoint diversity.” Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, many major companies professed a commitment to promote diversity and racial justice, adding diversity, equity and inclusion positions to their employee roster. Between September 2019 and September 2020, DEI positions jumped by 56.3%, and companies shelled out thousands to have diversity experts like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi speak to their staffs. But in the years since, the movement has fizzled out. In fact, the number of DEI roles in America shrunk by 8% in the first two months of this year alone. Companies like Meta, Lyft, Home Depot and Wayfair have all slashed their DEI teams by 50% or more. Under Elon Musk’s leadership, X’s DEI team shrunk from 30 employees to just two. Meanwhile, Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman launched a public attack earlier this year on DEI, dubbing it “inherently a racist and illegal movement.” Despite formerly working in DEI herself, Lee says the industry is rightfully shrinking — especially due to its glaring blindspot to antisemitism. She was squeezed out of her job as faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice and Education at DeAnza College last year after, she says, enduring “non-stop hostility” for promoting the “wrong” kind of inclusion. Among her supposed transgressions was promoting an event to fight campus antisemitism — which she says many in the DEI community saw as an unworthy fight since, according to one of her colleagues, Jewish people are “white oppressors.” She says that attitude allowed many to turn a blind eye to antisemitism post-October 7: “DEI requires us to put each other into these rigid race and gender identity boxes and to have a rigid framework of victims and oppressors.” A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Jewish students at Harvard University concurs. It alleges the school is “deliberately indifferent” to campus antisemitism — and that DEI administrators selectively failed to protect Jewish students from discrimination. “Harvard’s permissive posture towards antisemitism is the opposite of its aggressive enforcement of the same anti-bullying and anti-discrimination policies to protect other minorities,” the suit reads. “Jews are fair game.” Diversity and inclusion expert Chloe Valdary agrees that divisive DEI ideology played a role in creating a situation in which antisemitism was ignored. “Traditional DEI perceives black and white people as symbols or political abstractions, not as actual human beings,” she told The Post. “Hence, when something like October 7 occurs, I can belittle and dismiss the attacks as ‘attacks on privileged white people’ and I can perceive Hamas, since they are Arab, as oppressed.” “October 7 has activated the human species’s tendency to go into an us-vs-them mindset — a mindset which traditional DEI has. unfortunately. fostered and nurtured,” she continued. Valdary founded the Theory of Enchantment, a pro-human, non-divisive diversity training she says is desperately needed as an alternative to DEI in its current form. Chloe Valdary created the “Theory of Enchantment,” which she says is a pro-human alternative to alienating diversity training. She says that the diversity industry needs to fundamentally rethink the way they operate — but she doesn’t believe it is going away. “There will always be a need for DEI because of the deeper problem DEI is actually trying to solve which is a people problem and it is also a deeply American problem: How do you create a society where people of all backgrounds feel like they belong, and like they can thrive? “It turns out that question is relevant in business,” she said. “But I predict DEI will be rebranded as it is too laden a word now.” Lee, on the other hand, is less optimistic, and believes the DEI retraction will continue. “I think what we’re realizing, especially in the past couple months,” she said, “is that DEI in its current form, honestly, is not salvageable.” (Article has more pictures and information.)
That Diversity, Equity BS is about to meet its timely death. As more and more business see that adopting those policies will put them at risk of numerous lawsuits on the grounds of discrimination, more and more businesses will refuse to hire these unqualified people with radical agendas. They just blacklisted themselves. Good job.
Dont need DEI to do the job HR is supposed to do...was a fad companies spent on and now slashing those budgets
School district DEI trainer says American flag becoming 'hate' symbol, employees resisting CRT should be fired 'This is insane,' a teacher who underwent the DEI training said about the messaging https://www.foxnews.com/media/schoo...an-flag-hate-symbol-resisting-employees-fired
DEI is unraveling at our universities. Good riddance to a failed and divisive bureaucracy. Compelling future faculty or students to profess adherence to a set of controversial beliefs goes against the very nature of higher education. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...rotests-antisemitism-mit-harvard/73971211007/