Commentary: What if DEI training makes people more biased?

December 02, 2024 1 min read

Lee Gutkin
Chronicle of Higher Education

Excerpt: If you’ve taught at a college or university in the last decade, you’ve almost certainly sat through some required diversity, equity, and inclusion programming. Perhaps you were on a search committee and had to meet regularly with a diversity consultant who promised to help root out your implicit biases. Or you were a graduate student asked to attend a workshop on “antiracist pedagogy.” Perhaps you were invited, or even compelled, to attend a session on “allyship training.”

All of this stuff has been controversial for a long time, felt by many to be a form of ideological indoctrination. But a new study sponsored by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab suggests that, even on its own terms, it just doesn’t work.

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