Stanford Engineering’s DEI Bureaucracy
Stanford Review | Mimi St Johns
In Stanford Review’s first Woke Watch piece, St Johns writes a scathing report on the School of Engineering’s (SoE) DEI efforts. “Let’s be honest: diversity is a cover. The real goal…is to politicize what should be one of the most concrete and objective disciplines: engineering. While the ‘diversity’ programs…may not actually achieve stated diversity goals and progressive hopes, don’t think that they aren’t making progress in the real agenda of eroding meritocracy…”
“[They’ve] assembled a team of DEI bureaucrats who create inclusivity guides, host diversity town halls, and collect online resource libraries for each department, among other things. What’s most curious about the ballooning diversity bureaucracy is its nonexistent effect on… diversity.”
St Johns goes on to document a host of declarations, land acknowledgements and the ideological creep into the classroom—all to no effect on diversity.
”If we really want to create a more diverse school, we should focus on the core issue: educational assistance for those coming in at a lower starting point. The fact that Stanford decides to hire…diversity bureaucrats instead of expanding the budget for tutoring students who need extra help, tells us all we need to know: none of this is about diversity or achievement, it’s a jobs program...”