Like a garden overgrown with weeds, our colleges and universities have become overgrown with a noxious plant of the academic variety — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This is the harmless-sounding phrase the left has adopted for its agenda of demolishing the foundations of our nation and replacing them with omnipotent government.

Legislators and higher education governing bodies have, in several states, started the work of clearing out the DEI weeds. One of them is North Carolina, and in today’s Martin Center article, Graham Hillard looks at how the work is going. In short, the weeds are proving hard to eradicate.

Here’s a slice:

On Feb. 5, constituent schools were notified by memo that “mandatory curricular and program requirements on prohibited topics” would have to go. Though UNC chancellors could “approve, in writing, a tailored waiver . . . for individual major-specific requirements” (emphasis added), the schools’ general-education curricula would have to be cleansed.

Sadly, compliance with this directive has left something to be desired. On Feb. 10, UNC-Chapel Hill administrators sent a message to the campus community announcing that the institution would no longer maintain a “U.S. Diversity” requirement in its Making Connections general-education curriculum. Though significant at a glance, the move achieved little in practice, since Making Connections had already given way to a new gen-ed curriculum for students entering in fall ’22 or later.

Moreover, the loose lips of some UNC personnel who are adamantly opposed to any reduction in their power to indoctrinate make it clear that they don’t plan to cooperate. Hillard continues, “Professor Lauren Jarvis of the history department helpfully gives away the game, telling the Daily Tar Heel that the new module title ‘will not change what she covers in [her] course.’ No matter what we ‘visitors’ say, Jarvis and her charges ‘will continue to wrestle with thorny questions about power and authority in a deeply divided, unequal society.’”

In other words, she will continue “teaching” her beliefs no matter what.