Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Course Costs Taxpayers Nearly $2 Billion Nationally: Study
A new report says state taxpayers and undergraduates are being forced to subsidize them. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) courses offered in public universities in the country cost around $2 billion.
of Goldwater Institute report Students and state taxpayers are paying $1.8 billion in tuition and in-state benefits each four years for DEI’s comprehensive education program.
The report goes on to state that the number of undergraduate students at public universities spent at least 40 million student hours satisfying the DEI’s general education requirements.
A new report shows that state taxpayers and undergraduate students are being forced to fund diversity, equity and inclusion course mandates at a cost of nearly $2 billion. (iStock)
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Many proponents of DEI argue that the effort redresses historical injustice and systemic injustice. However, conservatives say it encourages fragmentation instead, and DEI initiatives have come under intense scrutiny in the past year and have been pushed back by several large companies.
Additionally, the report cites examples of courses that promote DEI or explore intersectionality and race, gender, and sexuality.
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According to the Goldwater Institute, “Abandoning their responsibility to promote intellectual inquiry free from ideological coercion, university administrators—state legislators—now owe their taxpayers and students the duty to step in.”
Fox News Digital previously reported that DEI was suspended at the University of Michigan after officials reviewed its impact on the campus community. The University of Michigan’s Board of Regents, which has a 6-2 Democratic majority, also discussed the future of the bureaucracy at the university related to the DEI initiative.
The University of Michigan was one of several American colleges to bring back some of their DEI programs this year. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
Several other public universities have scaled back their DEI initiatives and requirements in the past year.
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