“The Trump administration is moving to suspend 38 universities from the State Department’s Diplomacy Lab for enforcing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring policies,” reports Campus Reform.
Among the universities targeted are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Duke.
Campus Reform reports that
A Nov. 17 memo proposes removing schools that require or promote DEI in hiring or admissions. The suspensions, set to begin Jan. 1, 2026, would reshape the federal academic network, replacing elite institutions with DEI-free alternatives like Liberty University, Brigham Young University, and several other schools.
Diplomacy Lab, launched in 2013, allows college researchers department access to work on foreign policy projects. The updated criteria would only allow partnerships with schools using strictly merit-based hiring, according to a color-coded spreadsheet categorizing 75 universities.
The shift follows a broader Trump-led crackdown on DEI in higher education. In recent months, the administration ordered all federally funded schools to abandon DEI initiatives or risk losing grants and accreditation.
The policy is already reshaping the landscape: Columbia University ended race- and sex-based hiring in a $200 million settlement, and many other institutions are shuttering DEI offices…The new criteria for participation in federal programs would allow only schools with merit-based hiring and no evidence of DEI.
Princeton University is still requiring DEI and microaggression training, and is probably still discriminating based on race in hiring and admissions. Medical students at the University of Cincinnati recite a DEI oath.
President Trump has issued executive orders against DEI, but many colleges still haven’t ended even illegal DEI practices that discriminate based on race. For example, the University of Illinois Chicago illegally retaliated against a professor who criticized racially discriminatory hiring policies that discriminated against whites. That professor was forced out of his job and left unemployed for nearly a year as a result. The Liberty Justice Center is fighting back on behalf of the professor.
A study by a California State University professor found that an increase in “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies at a college is linked to rising opposition there to free speech. “The rise of DEI bureaucracies has actually coincided with the beginning of a ‘Free-Speech Crisis on College Campuses,’” noted the study.
College DEI staffers encourage illegal discrimination against whites and Asians. For example, at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Director of Race and Equity advocated denying white employees leave because of their race. That director, Johnathan Perkins, also claimed that “every white person is racist to some degree”, and falsely claimed that “white people cannot be victims of racism,” and “only white people can impose racist harm.” These claims disregarded court rulings finding that whites can be victims of racism and nonwhites can act illegally in committing racist acts.
Perkins told whites not to wish him a “Happy Juneteenth” because he will “flip tf out” if they do. He reacted to the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth by saying,“Good riddance.”
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff harbor high levels of antisemitism, reports The College Fix.
