Academic support for far-left ideologies like diversity, equity, and inclusion ( DEI ) and mass illegal immigration is not just for the ivory tower of Ivy League universities. State schools across the nation are using their national grants to fund cultural research, raking in even more from international institutions, and investing millions to improve DEI.
Rutgers University, for instance, had 136 DEI-related workers in 2023, according to a statement from Open the Publications, with a$ 10 million salary increase overall. Since 2013, it has received$ 28.5 % of foreign governments ‘ money ( including China and Saudi Arabia ), and it has also received$ 3 billion in federal contracts and grants, the majority of which have been used to fund far-left initiatives.
Rutgers is one of 11 institutions that the report highlights ‘ efforts to show the institutionalization of higher learning at every level of prestige and in every area of the nation.
” With this new reporting, we’re discovering just how deeply the DEI view has influenced our academic institutions,” says the report. These are not far-Left ideas from Harvard or Princeton, as people have come to believe, according to John Hart, CEO of OpenTheBooks, in The Federalist. The personality politics plan is completely out of step with the majority of state-run schools, but they are richly investing in this idea. It demonstrates just how ruthless and obstinate La backers have become in recent years.
” Dismantling DEI’s equipment won’t be simple,” Hart continued.” Even though it seems like the tide is turning against DEI, it’s not easy to do so.” We’re going to observe the battle walk to the state because the Trump presidency is reversing these initiatives within the federal government.
DEI at Jersey
Devoteers of La philosophy incorporate it into every aspect of an organization’s procedure, from hiring to training to operations. That is the case at Rutgers ( as it is at so many other schools ), where prominent La activists, like Dr. Haejin In, a medical doctor and second Associate Director of DEI and Chief Diversity Office on the Rutgers Cancer Institute’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group, even have an impact on the practice of medicine.
Overall, 25 DEI-related staff at Rutgers receive salaries of between$ 100, 000 and$ 200, 000.
At least four professors in the department’s women, gender, and sexuality studies program make at least$ 200, 000 or more, while 66 other department employees are program coordinators, teaching assistants, and other positions.
” Poverty, Inequality, and Gender” and” Social Justice Actions” have been included in the sessions. The department also offers a required minimal in addition to the minors in Essential Sexualities, Social Justice, and Gender and Media, despite the fact that students can key in Women’s, Gender, and Gender Studies.
The Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology is a part of the School Climate Transformation Project, which is also supported by the New Jersey Department of Education, in order to “promote systems-level shift and equitable and positive school seasons,” according to the document.
According to the task, “equity, especially in terms of communicating and engaging with school community people,” is prioritized throughout every step of the SCCP and is attended to by both district- and school-level officials.
Another DEI-related system, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, is described by the school as a” pipe for new knowledge and ideas, providing opportunities for Rutgers faculty whose comments address racism and social inequality to work cooperatively and influence substantial actions and positive change.
The program has an openly stated goal of turning society into a haven for DEI, with the website describing it as a “universitywide intellectual corridor that increases the likelihood that their explorations and findings will inform real-world decisions, providing solutions to problems that have been increasingly brought into sharp focus in the United States and around the globe.”
Twenty-six DEI-related employees are on the payroll, including Michelle Stephens, the organization’s executive director, who makes a$ 341, 746 salary.
The school’s Equity and Inclusion Department, which has eight additional staff members on the payroll, is led by Enobong Branch, who makes the same amount as Stephens.
K-12 schools and universities have received advice from the Trump administration informing them that their federal funding may be cut because their DEI programs are likely to violate Title VI civil rights law.
Federal funding
Nearly$ 3 billion in federal tax money has been paid to Rutgers, with about$ 2 billion going to grants. That does not include the nearly 0 % tax on its$ 2 billion endowment or the government-backed student loans that are offered to students. ( Endowments have been heavily taxed by the Trump administration and conservatives in Congress. )
The Department of Education awarded$ 775 million and the National Science Foundation awarded$ 271 million, while the Department of Health and Human Services provided about$ 1.2 billion in grants. The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Defense each received slightly smaller grants, totaling almost$ 60 million.
A National Science Foundation-funded project aims to develop a” theory around social control, state practices, and human agency” about the deportation of “immigrants with criminal records” in order to “deepen the understanding of the relationship between citizenship, the law, and policing practices that have had such an impact on racialized immigrant communities.
The National Endowment for the Arts-funded project” supports an ethnographic case study of the impact of hip-hop-based arts education on facilitating youth community-building, agency, and activism” is another assuredly groundbreaking work.
The Department of Agriculture was interested in how to” convince Americans to eat more farmed seafood” as opposed to wild caught seafood in order to increase American general seafood consumption and how consumer preference for wild over farmed fish reduces the aquaculture industry’s production and profitability.
Despite having a sizable endowment, Rutgers still received nearly$ 290.5 million in Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds during the coronavirus pandemic.
Since Trump took office, the Department of Education has canceled numerous far-left grants and contracts.
Foreign funding
Since 2013, Rutgers has also raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign funding. Although the majority of funding has come from countries like the UK and Japan, the university has received$ 26 million from China and has collaborated with the nation on grants and scholarships through the Rutgers Beijing Center and the China office.
Despite Rutgers ‘ own research revealing certain information about China, the school decides to work with China. A” smoking gun” that the coronavirus was intentionally created in a Chinese lab was discovered by Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers.
According to a study from the Rutgers-based Network Contagion Research Institute, the Chinese government uses TikTok to discredit its own government and stifle opposition.
From the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has given$ 630, 000 and Qatar has given$ 327, 000. According to The Federalist, Qatar’s funding of American educational institutions is a propaganda tool.
Rutgers did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
The Federalist’s election correspondent is Breccan F. Thies. He previously covered issues of education and culture for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. On Twitter, @BreccanFThies, you can follow him.
