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Equality, Not Elitism

Abolish the college DEI graduation mandate

By Max Eden

Published April 19, 2024 6:00am ET

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Abolish the college DEI graduation mandate — FILE - Students and passers-by walk past an entrance to Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Nov. 29, 2018, in Boston. As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize their decisions on what college to attend this fall, many are facing jaw-dropping costs — in some cases, as much as $95,000. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

In the late 1980s, Jesse Jackson famously led a bunch of Stanford students in a march, shouting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go!” Universities broadly complied, hollowing out core course requirements in Western Civilization.

The result has been an understandable lament on the Right that our universities have no moral core and that they transmit no common cultural inheritance or shared intellectual framework.

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