According to the White House, President Donald Trump's latest executive order aims to restore “competence-based opportunity” to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in federally funded institutions of higher education. The aim is to water down the practice of DEI.
President Trump issued a number of executive orders in his first two days in office, including ordering all federal agencies to close DEI offices by Wednesday and provide paid leave to employees in each department. To further efforts to discourage DEI, the president is initiating a federal review of such teachings and practices in federally funded educational institutions.
A White House order released Tuesday states, “Institutions of higher education must adopt dangerous, humiliating, and immoral race- and gender-based preferences under the guise of so-called 'diversity, equity, and inclusion.' , is being actively used.”
The order directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to identify potential civil compliance investigations at institutions of higher education with endowments in excess of $1 billion and, accordingly, “describe DEI programs that constitute unlawful discrimination or preferential treatment.” It calls for the development of an action plan to “prevent the spread of the law and principles.”
Conservative groups reveal how President Trump can clean up Department of Education, publish list of bureaucrats fired
President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. (Evan Vucci)
The AG and the Secretary of Education will issue guidance within 120 days to state and local educational agencies that receive federal funds or grants or participate in student loan programs. The focus is on the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard University President and Fellows, a landmark case that determined that race-based admissions practices violate the 14th Amendment. placed on ensuring compliance with the judgment.
“Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the letter and spirit of longstanding federal civil rights law, they also deny and discredit traditional American values such as hard work, excellence, and individual achievement. “It supports an illicit, corrupt and harmful identity-based spoils system that undermines and thus undermines the integrity of the nation,” the memo said.
He noted that the executive order does not prevent educational institutions and institutions from engaging in speech activities that are “protected by the First Amendment.”
White House OPM orders all DEI offices to begin closing by end of day Wednesday
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, praised President Trump for opposing the controversial practice.
Linda McMahon, former head of the Small Business Administration and President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, appears with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) (not pictured) at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 8. ) arrived for a meeting. (Valerie Preche/Bloomberg)
“For too long, social justice warriors have campaigned to make DEI mandatory across America. DEI believers promote policies that run counter to American exceptionalism, not merit, skill, and ability. “We did,” Wahlberg said. “From the classroom to the boardroom, Americans have felt the negative effects. DEI has bloated education budgets while teaching students what to think, not how to think. ”
In his analysis of the executive order, Jonathan Turley, a FOX News contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, wrote that the executive order “sends shockwaves through higher education, resulting in government agencies The actions taken are likely to cause a tsunami.” About the lawsuit. ”
President Donald Trump will participate in a post-inauguration signing ceremony Monday at the President's Office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Melina Mara)
Meanwhile, one education expert suggested that universities could begin pre-complying with new DEI measures.
“It seems very likely that higher education institutions will become pre-compliant even before the Department of Education or the National Science Foundation writes it into a specific project,” said Interfaith America founder and Chairman Ebu Patel told the Chronicle of Higher Education. “The university will adopt the spirit of the executive order.”
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Nearly a dozen states have already banned or prohibited the use of DEI initiatives, including states with Democratic governors. At public colleges and universities.
