Now that the Trump administration is attacking DEI programs, the huge diversity establishment is whining that we will lose valuable educational benefits if we shut them down. But are there really any benefits?

In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Alexander Riley argues that there are none.

Referring to AAUP President Todd Wolfson, Riley writes:

When Wolfson says something a bit more substantive, he decries a purported imposition of “limits [on] research and curricula,” which could allegedly harm “the collective good.” It is telling, though, that he names no specific piece of objectively useful research that the demolition of DEI would prevent.

Yes — the “research” that diversity zealots do amounts to blathering articles full of “lived experience” and “personal truths.” And DEI curricula is nothing but grievance mongering.

Riley continues:

Evaluating the intellectual quality of scholarly work requires close qualitative attention to articles and books and a carefully calibrated schema for the evaluation of such work. Doing this for an entire college’s faculty would be tremendously onerous at the level of labor hours. I do not know of a single academic department in any college or university that has ever seriously undertaken a study of this kind to see, for example, how the scholarship of its current faculty stacks up to that of the school’s faculty in the days before DEI.

In short, DEI ” scholarship” is just meant to support preconceived conclusions. Colleges and universities should stop wasting their money on it.