Mayor Randall Woodfin of Birmingham, Alabama, said in a February Facebook post that if Alabama’s proposed anti-DEI bill became law, “I have no problem organizing Black parents and athletes to attend other institutions outside of the state where diversity and inclusion are prioritized.” Alabama Gov. Kate Ivey signed SB 129, which bans Alabama colleges from having diversity, equity and inclusion programs or departments and instruction on “divisive concepts,” into law March 20.
Consistent with the problem of culture wars being waged by people who have no sense of history or context, not enough critics have bothered to ask why colleges are engaging in DEI work. The answer is that American colleges have institutional memory, know the history of higher education in this country very well, and when they look back, they don’t like what they see. The history of American higher education is one of exclusion.
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