President Donald Trump’s return to office has had plenty of positive knock-on effects. That includes the University of California system becoming less racist.
Trump’s righteous crusade against the racism of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is resonating throughout higher education. That now includes the UC system, which announced on Wednesday that it would no longer use “diversity statements” in its hiring process. These statements force prospective faculty members to explain how they would contribute to the university’s diversity, serving as an easy sorting mechanism to filter out which candidates don’t adhere to progressive orthodoxy through DEI buzzwords. The University of California, Santa Cruz explicitly told applicants that “initial screening of applications will be based” on these diversity statements.
This would not be happening under a President Kamala Harris. The UC system would happily continue to use DEI ideological hiring practices if it knew it could do so without drawing the ire of the federal government. Four UC schools have already received a letter from Trump’s Education Department about their allowing antisemitic protesters to threaten Jewish students. The UC system watched Columbia get stripped of $400 million in research grants over the antisemitic environment it created, so it knows it’s on thin ice.
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The UC system would otherwise be content to maintain a toxic racial environment through its discriminatory practices. Multiple whistleblowers at the University of California, Los Angeles claimed the university’s medical school was admitting minority students who did not meet academic requirements to appease the DEI-focused dean of admissions. This same racial toxicity has prospered in UCLA’s medical school curriculum as well, while the University of California, Berkeley used a DEI points system in hiring penalized applicants who didn’t check DEI ideological boxes.
This is not a permanent solution. The University of California system is loaded with DEI-obsessed bureaucrats and has been a breeding ground for racial discrimination for years. The UC system will happily go back to screening potential employees for their ideology in four years if a Democrat takes the White House. This is still a victory, though, and a victory only made possible by Republicans winning in November. It should be yet another reminder to voters that they do not have to live in the racially discriminatory society that people in the UC system want to build.