Trump calls higher education “dangerous, degrading and immoral” DEI teachings.

President Donald Trump’s latest executive order aims to dilute diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in federally funded practices. higher education institutions in an effort to restore “merit-based opportunity,” according to the White House.

During his first two days in office, Trump issued a series of executive orders, including the order that all federal agencies close their DEI offices Wednesday and put employees in those units on paid leave. To further his effort to deter DEI, the president is launching a federal review of these teachings and practices at educational institutions that receive federal funding.

“Institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, degrading and immoral race and gender preferences under the guise of so-called ‘diversity, equity and inclusion,'” says the White House order, released this tuesday

The order requires the attorney general and the secretary of education to identify potential civil compliance investigations among institutions of higher education with endowments greater than $1 billion and, accordingly, develop action plans to “deter DEI programs or principles that constitute unlawful discrimination or preferences.”

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Within 120 days, the AG and the secretary of education will issue guidance to state and local educational institutions that receive federal funds or grants or participate in the student loan program. The focus will be on ensuring compliance with the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, a landmark case that held that race-based admissions practices violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

“The illegal policies of DEI and DEIA not only violate the letter and spirit of our long-standing federal civil rights laws, they also undermine our national unity by denying, discrediting, and undermining traditional values Americans of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an illegal, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based system of looting,” the memo says.

The executive order noted that it will not prevent educational institutions or agencies from engaging in “First Amendment-protected” speech.

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Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., presiding the House Education and Labor Committee, applauded Trump for rejecting the controversial practice.

“For too long, social justice warriors have crusaded to mandate DEI in every corner of America. Instead of merit, skill, and ability, DEI devotees have pushed policies that are antithetical to American exceptionalism Walberg said. “From the classroom to the boardroom, Americans have felt the negative effects. DEI has inflated education budgets while telling students what to think instead of how to think.”

Jonathan Turley, a Fox News contributor and Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, suggested in an analysis of the executive order that it “will send a shock wave through higher education and that the agency’s resulting actions likely set off a tsunami.” of lawsuits”.

Meanwhile, one education expert suggested that universities could start pre-complying with the new DEI measures.

“It seems very plausible that institutions of higher education will be pre-compliant, even before the Department of Education or the National Science Foundation writes it into specific projects,” said Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith America, in the Chronicle of Higher Education. “Universities will embrace the spirit of the executive order.”

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Nearly 10 states, including one with a Democratic governor, have already banned or banned the use of DEI initiatives in public colleges and universities.