The Narthex
Colleges Won't Let DEI Go
Which is why the Trump Administration needs scholastic data
By John M. Grondelski | August 6th 2025 12:45 PMAs part of their settlements with the Trump Administration, Columbia and Brown Universities have agreed to provide applicants' grade point averages and standardized test scores. The New York Times is appalled (link below). I am not. Large swaths of American higher education refuse to let DEI -- diversity, equity, and…
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Ideologues who ignore the nation's real interests mostly protect each other
By John M. Grondelski | August 20th 2024 1:54 PMMinouche Shafik has quit as President of Columbia. After some posturing before a House committee on how Columbia “protects” its Jewish students from the pro-Hamas mob -- which, like a virus, occasionally manifests a more virulent outbreak -- Shafik showed herself incapable of handling vandals who interfered with student access…
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