University Michigan is Taking DEI Activism to the Next Level Through Its Latest Program
Jose Nino
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On October 9, 2023, the University of Michigan rolled out its “DEI 2.0 Plan,” unveiling its five-year blueprint for the next set of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs to execute on campus.
Tabbye Chavous, the school’s chief diversity officer, was said to have informed students that with DEI 2.0, University of Michigan was “doubling down and not backing down on DEI.” She continued by noting that, “What we do in our next 2.0 journey will impact [the University], higher education and our broader society.”
The new plan features a campaign to hire staff based on “DEI Values,” whereas another program vows to “enhance diversity, equity and inclusion in biomedical and health sciences by recruiting 30 new tenure-track assistant professors” with “diverse social and disciplinary identities.”
On top of that, there was another program solely focused on “Enhancing Black Student Representation & Experiences” with programming that was aimed at producing “equitable opportunities for access, success and a sense of belonging for Black students, in particular.”
Michigan’s plan also reiterated its commitment to “environmental justice” by vowing to pursue “carbon neutrality,” boasting about the recent creation of a chief environmental, social, and governance officer position at Michigan Health.
There’s no denying that universities across the nation are pursuing DEI programs at alarming speed. The cultural Left is playing for keeps here. These people are afraid of right-wing nationalism and they will use all means at their disposal to silence dissenting discourse.
The Right has to respond in kind by using prudential state power to keep the Left’s radical project at bay by banning DEI at universities or at least punishing faculty and administrators that promote this nonsense.
The time for debating is over. It’s time to legislate.
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