My take: EOs will impact “grotesquely discriminatory” programming, but the “core ideological and cultural battles on campuses … are not really addressed by the executive orders, nor can they be addressed by the executive orders. It’s a culture on the campuses that needs to change.”
Trump’s Executive Orders on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) dominated the first days of his second presidency. I addressed the potential impact in my post, Trump’s Merit-Based DEI Executive Order Is A Sledgehammer.
Here is my ‘hot take’ on what it means going forward, excerpted from our full podcast recorded today, Operation Shock & Awe: Trump’s First Week. You can hear my much longer explanation of the DEI Executive Orders starting here.
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This is going to have a huge impact. We don’t know how far it will go.
It’s not going to end DEI—this is something I think we need to talk about. People think this is the end of DEI. It’s not.
It may …