Community colleges are supposed to offer a range of academic opportunities for high-school students, high-school graduates, adults seeking job skills, and more. Most still do: Community colleges (also called junior colleges) allow students who struggled in high school or who cannot afford to attend a four-year institution to continue their education and enhance their career prospects.
Woke radicals, however, are also propagating the same racially focused, ideologically driven DEI offices and training on community-college campuses that have distracted four-year institutions from educating students. While these schools should be focused on improving their academic offerings and completion rates, radical racial and “gender” activists have captured whole departments and administrative offices at community colleges across the country.
Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), I found that 81 percent of the largest community colleges in medium or large cities or suburban areas have DEI staff or list at least one DEI program on the college’s website. My report identified degree-granting public or private community colleges that enroll at least 1,000 students, a dataset that contains 328 schools, approximately 22 percent of all community colleges in the United States.
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The proposal released Friday requires hiring decisions across all state governmental entities to be based on “merit, fairness and equality,” a conservative rejoinder to DEI with its own acronym (MFE), bill authors Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, and Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, told legislators in a memo seeking support for the measure.