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A new report released Thursday by the group Speech First finds that nearly two-thirds of colleges and universities reviewed have requirements for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) courses to satisfy graduation requirements.
The report, titled “No Graduation Without Indoctrination: The DEI Course Mandate,” investigated 248 colleges from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and found that 67% of the institutions reviewed mandate DEI courses to satisfy general education requirements. Of the 165 institutions identified that enforce DEI requirements, 59% were taxpayer-funded public institutions and 41% were private institutions.
Speech First Executive Director Cherise Trump — no relation to the former president — spoke with FOX Business’ Lydia Hu about the report and said that the idea to look into DEI graduation requirements came about through conversations with college students.
Trump explained: “We had heard about some of the trainings through freshman orientations and some of the online modules… But we had not heard that you have to take full semester-long courses in order to graduate, so we wanted to look more into this and that’s when we started digging.”
Speech First, an organization dedicated to supporting free speech on college campuses nationwide, conducted an investigation revealing that DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) courses required for graduation often promote far-left ideological views. Additionally, these courses may encourage students to participate in political activism related to these issues.
She further added in her interview with Fox Business: “Looking at some of the courses that the students are required to take in order to satisfy these requirements, we realized that this is actually going to take a lot more effort by the states to actually disentangle DEI from campus… However, once we take them off campus, you’re turning the spigot off, but you’re not essentially disentangling all of what they’ve been building for the last decade or so since they’ve been on there pushing this with millions of dollars of funding.”
Special thanks to @Varneyco and @MadisonAlworth for discussing the shocking findings from our DEI report on @foxbusiness.
“I do think most of the universities that we are looking at are bad actors who do want to impart their political ideology onto students.” @cherisetrump pic.twitter.com/zh0p4iyy6U
— Speech First (@Speech_First) April 11, 2024
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