DEI course mandates at public universities are costing taxpayers and students $1.8 billion – and as much as $3.8 billion – plus 40 million man-hours in required classes, a new report by the Goldwater Institute (GI) found.
GI’s research discovered that public universities from at least 30 states require a DEI course in order to graduate. State lawmakers provide even more funding for the courses than the Biden administration.
Furthermore, the report observed that the free speech advocacy organization Speech First said that 67 percent of U.S. colleges and universities require students to take a DEI course. Parents Defending Education also revealed that the Department of Education awarded over $1 billion in grant funding for DEI courses within the past four years to K-12 schools and universities.
Additionally, “[P]ublic university faculty senate bodies have forced degree-specific DEI content to be embedded into all majors and/or given financial kickbacks to professors who infuse DEI content into their existing classes.” Due to this aspect, the total cost is “likely dramatically greater” than the $2 billion estimate.
The report listed some of the most outrageous courses. The University of Virginia’s “‘Hateinnany’: Fascism, Antifascism, and the Global Far Right” discusses President Donald Trump in terms of “far right politics” and “fascism.”
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