Sen. J.D. Vance pressed the incoming president of his alma mater, Ohio State University, to take motion towards range, fairness and inclusion practices that the lawmaker says have been “infused into the university’s hiring practices and curricula.”
Mr. Vance, Ohio Republican, accused the faculty of utilizing “diversity considerations” in some hiring practices and stated the “DEI dogma” has invaded undergraduate programs.
“If universities keep pushing racial hatred, euphemistically called DEI, we need to look at their funding,” Mr. Vance posted Friday on X.
Mr. Vance urged new Ohio State President Walter Carter Jr. in a letter to “right the ship” on the college. The senator pointed to a Wall Street Journal evaluation revealed in November that confirmed range issues, like race, ethnicity, intercourse and views on range, had been elements taken under consideration when hiring college on the university’s College of Arts and Sciences.
He stated Ohio State directors assured him that the practices would come to an finish and get replaced with extra standardized hiring practices.
However, Mr. Vance stated he not too long ago realized that undergraduate college students had been being requested to take part in DEI-infused coursework. He pointed to course materials that “encouraged white students to confess that ‘whiteness … subtly trained [them] to visit hostility, distress and violence … upon people of color.’”
“In other words, students in this course were being taught to traffic in various
race- and identity-based stereotypes, including the stereotype that white people are inherently wicked and oppressive,” Mr. Vance stated.
He continued within the letter, “It seems that the rot of DEI — a modern gloss on racism, antisemitism and other ancient prejudices — is pervasive at Ohio State. Your presidency is the kind of change in leadership that I hope will occasion a serious review of these ideas, their legality and their role on campus.”
