Press Release
Helping End DEI Across Florida Universities
Washington, D.C.—The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life has, for the better part of three years, released higher education reports detailing the spread of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) infrastructure across some of America’s largest college systems. Thanks to our efforts, states like Idaho and Texas are rolling back this pernicious ideology from public centers of higher learning.
Today, at a public round-table held by Governor DeSantis, we announced the release of Florida Universities: From Woke to Professionalism, a lengthy study that both documents the extent to which DEI ideology has captured Florida’s universities and offers a bold plan to challenge this decades-long con-game.
“Governor Ron DeSantis has been pursuing wise and prudent policies, not only to defund bloated administrative offices dedicated to pursuing DEI, but also to instill in the universities an alternative mission that emphasizes the foundation for a reasonable American patriotism,” said Senior Director of State Coalitions at the Claremont Institute Scott Yenor. “We hope this report provides a nice, actionable blueprint on how to execute these plans.”
DEI represents a set of radical political and social views that are turning our universities against America’s most cherished values. All 12 four-year Florida universities have a central administrator dedicated to infusing pervasive anti-American racialist propaganda into curricula, hiring, training, and recruiting, and the destruction of standards to accommodate protected groups.
