NYT Reveals Why DEI Admissions Scam Isn’t Going Away on Its Own

America’s top universities can’t quit and won’t quit DEI no matter how unpopular it is with the American people.

A recent editorial in the New York Times titled “This California Educational Juggernaut Doesn’t Need the SAT,” highlighted the mentality that has led to the erosion of merit in our nation’s top schools and the flagging public support that was once near universal.

The author of the piece, Miriam Pawel, acknowledged that the University of California’s abandonment of the SAT, which had already become quite watered down in recent decades, may have led to a less able student body, but that it didn’t matter.

By admitting more nonwhite students with weaker test scores, the state is fixing inequality through DEI by giving them a new leg up in a world that’s unfair to them, or something like that.

What about exceptional student applicants who don’t check the correct, “historically oppressed” boxes? Meh, too bad.

Pawel argued that the focus on equality over merit hasn’t really been a problem, and if it is, then the K-12 schools are really at fault and need to be fixed.

You can thank teachers’ unions and the leftists in the state capital who block any kind of reforms that would help on that front.

“What has made the University of California exceptional is its commitment to increase access without sacrificing excellence,” Pawel then wrote without evidence.

She also went with this incredible line: “Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates.”

In other words, students at California’s “flagship” universities may lack the basic skills once expected of them, but they are graduate regardless. See, everything is fine!

The truth is that at the end of the day bringing in the best and brightest students and giving them the tools to actually succeed isn’t their priority.

A college degree in far too many cases is no longer about developing people with the greatest skills, the most expansive minds, and the strongest leadership abilities. Instead, our top schools have become racial and ideological sorting machines, giving stamps of approval to the next generation of pseudo-elites regardless of their abilities.

The left-wing, racialist mindset is pervasive. It saturates the ever-expanding bureaucracies that control higher ed and explode costs for students and taxpayers. It creates a chilling atmosphere among the dwindling faculty who still take their expertise and roles as educators seriously. And it vicariously infects every institution that relies on college graduates.

Unwinding this system is daunting, but it must be done. It won’t happen at the behest of the universities themselves. They’ve too successfully created a self-replicating system of DEI that builds upon itself.

Instead, it’s going to take a massive, ongoing, and relentless effort at the state and federal levels to undo the DEI problem. And not just through the courts. This Trump administration has taken that job even more seriously than the first go around. That’s likely, at least in part, because of the Great Awokening opening so many eyes to the threat.

But their efforts are nonetheless commendable. No longer are America’s top universities going to be handed a blank check to carry out a perverse, discriminatory agenda. They will either reform or face lawsuits and defunding.

For instance, the Treasury Department announced in early September that “schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature,” and proposed regulations to “establish a clear standard, and the institutions that continue to use discriminatory practices will no longer receive the benefits of federal tax-exempt status.”

Wonderful.

As one might expect, this announcement from the Treasury Department wasn’t taken very well by higher education’s white knights, er, I should say perfectly statistically racially diverse knights in the left-leaning media.

“Trump’s Latest Move Threatens Any College That Seeks to Promote Equality” read one headline at Inside Higher Ed.

“New IRS proposal threatens universities’ tax-exempt status over diversity programs,” read another from Politico.

The administration isn’t going after “diversity” or “equality” in higher education. It’s going after a broad set of programs that illegally racially discriminate—mostly against white and Asian students—to boost favored racial groups that many of our nation’s top schools have decided to admit even if their qualifications don’t match their peers.

Now, you might be thinking, “Hey, didn’t the Supreme Court already rule against that nonsense?”

It did.

But as we’ve seen, schools have found ways to dodge the ruling by relabeling programs, changing admission metrics to appear neutral while fishing for particular racial outcomes, and fishing for the “right” groups by essentially asking students to mention their race in admissions essays, giving them a leg up in admissions.

These schemes are eroding the quality of the student body at many schools, but they clearly don’t care. The few lonely voices on the inside practically begging their institutions to bring in students who don’t require years of remedial courses have mostly been ignored.

If our nation’s top schools want to commit institutional seppuku on behalf of DEI, it’s not going to be easy to stop them. But we can, at least, do what should have been done long ago: remove the massive financial aid the federal government has handed them on our behalf for generations.

And if they want to essentially take the path of passive-aggressively propping up DEI now, tomorrow, and forever, we have every right—in fact, I’d say our government has the prerogative—to remove its considerable support entirely.

Honestly, I wish it didn’t have to be this way. There was a time, long ago, in which it made sense for Americans to extend broad funding to our nation’s colleges and universities. They’ve provided the U.S. with a significant technological edge; they were once a pathway for Americans of many different backgrounds to find success.

But the ideological excess that was once fringe and ancillary has become their primary reason for being. Not only has higher education been compromised and gobbled up by its far-left wing, it’s for far too long shut the door on talented young Americans because they have the “wrong” skin color. They’ve become racialist, barely disguised activist factories.

The only thing that’s going to stop the scam is for this administration and ones that follow to methodically, relentlessly pressure them to change, obey the law, and start serving the American people rather than the interests of globalist, race-obsessed leftists.

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