DEI infestation is still pervasive at Universities, especially the University of Colorado. How do we rectify that?
How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado
The Wall Street Journal explains How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado
President Trump’s executive order “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” reaffirms what has been true since the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Discrimination in hiring isn’t allowed. The order will deter universities from violating the law. Its ripple effects could also help reverse a related trend: ideological discrimination, which has reshaped the very meaning of higher education.
In a hiring proposal that the National Association of Scholars acquired, faculty and staff of the university’s program for writing and rhetoric argued that recruiting a “BIPOC” professor—the acronym stands for “black, indigenous and people of color”—was vital to the department’s “curricular and programmatic goals.” Faculty at the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures, proposing to hire a German-studies professor, touted the racial diversity of the department’s preferred candidate and explained how she could revise courses on fairy tales, folklore, and fantasy to incorporate “critical race studies perspectives.”
Both of these scholars, and many more, were hired through the university’s Faculty Diversity Action Plan, a special funding program for diversity-focused faculty hiring, which ran until 2023, when it was restructured and renamed. Created in 2020, the program played a significant role in dictating whom the university hired. In a 2022 faculty meeting, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences was asked how many professors were hired through the program since it began. He estimated that around 90% were either hired through the program or were spousal hires.
One version of the application form, which was used in dozens of the hiring plans, asks departments: “How will this hire increase the number of underrepresented faculty members in the unit (e.g., US Faculty of Color, women in disciplines where underrepresented)?”
The university’s framing should have immediately raised legal red legal flags. Long before Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned race-based discrimination, which President Trump’s executive order reaffirms. Consultants often remind universities that they can’t base hiring decisions on race.
Yet, competing for the funds to bring in new faculty, academic departments happily followed administrators’ prompting and boasted about their intent to discriminate. “Our commitment, should we be successful with this application, is to hire someone from the BIPOC community,” wrote faculty and staff at the journalism department. “Our aim is specifically to hire a Black, Indigenous, or Latinx faculty member,” wrote faculty at the geography department.
The program ram-rodded its diversity priorities at an impressive scale. Several plans proposed not only single hires but the hiring of multiple professors at once. “This cluster hire,” faculty and staff at the college of engineering and applied science wrote, “has the goal of doubling our underrepresented faculty in the college.” Another cluster hire, faculty at the information science department noted, “emphasizes hiring Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Latinx, and Pacific Islander faculty.” Faculty at the department of ethnic studies wrote: “We have an urgent and qualified need for BIPOC femme/women of color faculty in an Africana Studies focus who will contribute to the social science division thematic cluster hire in racism and racial inequality.”
The records show how departments used ideological affinity as a tool to recruit minorities. Faculty and staff at the writing and rhetoric program noted that “another BIPOC TT hire”—TT meaning tenure track—“is critical to meet our curricular and programmatic goals.” They thus proposed hiring a scholar specializing in “critical approaches to race, ethnicity, culture, embodiment, and/or decolonialism,” arguing that such a search “is likely to draw interest from a large pool of diverse scholars.”
To undo the damage will be a monumental task, and an end to race-based hiring is the necessary first step. The sign of true success will be when universities empower scholars who understand the true purpose of higher education: the pursuit of truth.
Only BIPOCs Need Apply
In an attempt to its blatant anti-white discrimination the University of Colorado renamed the program to Critical Needs Hiring Program (CNHP) but the goals only strengthened.
Guiding Principles
The CNHP’s guiding principles and commitments are derived from Regent Laws and Policies governing the University of Colorado community, establishing that diversity, equity, and inclusion; nondiscrimination; and academic freedom are co-existent guiding principles and fundamental values.
How is the Critical Needs Hiring Program (CHNP) different from the old FDAP?
The CNHP will continue the funding support of $1M salary + benefits for tenured, tenure-track (TTT) and teaching-track hires through the campus budget model (this has not changed). Units receiving these lines will rotate, but unlike the FDAP, OFA will no longer facilitate a competitive selection process in which an advisory committee would make recommendations to the provost regarding which units should be allocated these lines.
How do we make a Critical Needs hire in alignment with the above guiding principles?
As indicated in the definition of Critical Needs, the process will consider and seek out those applicants who bring perspectives, life experiences, and expertise that are not (or are less) represented within the unit doing the hiring. The process should focus on an applicant’s demonstrated actions, not beliefs or identities. More specifically, the hiring can consider an applicant’s:
Demonstrated knowledge, such as pedagogical approach, about diversity, equity, and inclusion; Track record, such as experience in the field, including service and committee work and research and scholarship, in advancing equity and inclusion;
DEI Indoctrination
The University of Colorado clearly had a mandated goal of DEI indoctrination of faculty and therefore students.
Diversity at the University of Colorado actually meant extreme un-diversity. Only one viewpoint was allowed. And whites (or even Blacks who did not toe the line) were deemed unqualified, if not outright inferior.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, and religion.
Trump affirmed the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
On January 21, 2025 President Trump issued an Executive Order Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. These civil-rights protections serve as a bedrock supporting equality of opportunity for all Americans. As President, I have a solemn duty to ensure that these laws are enforced for the benefit of all Americans.
Yet today, roughly 60 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, critical and influential institutions of American society, including the Federal Government, major corporations, financial institutions, the medical industry, large commercial airlines, law enforcement agencies, and institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) or “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) that can violate the civil-rights laws of this Nation.
Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned, or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex.
The Federal Government is charged with enforcing our civil-rights laws. The purpose of this order is to ensure that it does so by ending illegal preferences and discrimination.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the civil rights of all Americans and to promote individual initiative, excellence, and hard work. I therefore order all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements. I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.
Sec. 3. Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government. (a) The following executive actions are hereby revoked:
(i) Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations);
(ii) Executive Order 13583 of August 18, 2011 (Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce);
(iii) Executive Order 13672 of July 21, 2014 (Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity); and
(iv) The Presidential Memorandum of October 5, 2016 (Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the National Security Workforce). ….. [Many More].Sec. 4. Encouraging the Private Sector to End Illegal DEI Discrimination and Preferences. (a) The heads of all agencies, with the assistance of the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate action with respect to the operations of their agencies to advance in the private sector the policy of individual initiative, excellence, and hard work identified in section 2 of this order.
Sec. 5. Other Actions. Within 120 days of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly issue guidance to all State and local educational agencies that receive Federal funds, as well as all institutions of higher education that receive Federal grants or participate in the Federal student loan assistance program under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq., regarding the measures and practices required to comply with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023).
Sec. 6. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Civil Rights Activist
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard University’s use of race in undergraduate admissions violated the Constitution.
The ruling came in the case Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Trump mandates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 be practiced.
Remedy of Illegal Actions
The logical remedy for the blatantly illegal actions at the University of Colorado is to seek discharge of every person at the university who was illegally hired.
That is the only way to guarantee the elimination of race-based hiring and student indoctrination.
Time to Cheer
Everyone should praise President Trump as a genuine Equal Opportunity advocate and Civil Rights activist.
This applies no matter what you believe the President’s goals are because discrimination for any reason is always wrong.
Finally, the only way to end discrimination based on race, sex, and religion is to stop discriminating based on race, sex, and religion. And that is precisely what Trump ordered.
Praise Trump [any politician] for correct actions and speak out when you disagree. Trump deserves praise for this.