Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Unwinding DEI: Part II
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Unwinding DEI: Part II
Political opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has been building for years, but something happened last October that felt like a turning point. In a deeply reported article for The New York Times Magazine, Nicholas Confessore cast doubt on the effectiveness of one of the nation’s best-funded DEI programs. Titled “The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong?,” Confessore’s article added fuel to a debate over whether DEI programs are meeting their stated goals or actually making campus climates worse. In an interview with College Matters, Confessore talks about his investigation, and what it meant for The Gray Lady to take a critical view of DEI.
Related Reading:
The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong? (The New York Times Magazine)
Where DEI Efforts Are Ambitious, Well Funded, and Taking Fire From All Sides (The Chronicle)
The Dismantling of DEI (The Chronicle)
Statement from Tabbye Chavous, vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan
Guest: Nicholas Confessore, a political and investigative reporter at The New York Times and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine.
For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
View all episodes
By The Chronicle of Higher Education
4.7
6060 ratings
Political opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has been building for years, but something happened last October that felt like a turning point. In a deeply reported article for The New York Times Magazine, Nicholas Confessore cast doubt on the effectiveness of one of the nation’s best-funded DEI programs. Titled “The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong?,” Confessore’s article added fuel to a debate over whether DEI programs are meeting their stated goals or actually making campus climates worse. In an interview with College Matters, Confessore talks about his investigation, and what it meant for The Gray Lady to take a critical view of DEI.
Related Reading:
The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong? (The New York Times Magazine)
Where DEI Efforts Are Ambitious, Well Funded, and Taking Fire From All Sides (The Chronicle)
The Dismantling of DEI (The Chronicle)
Statement from Tabbye Chavous, vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan
Guest: Nicholas Confessore, a political and investigative reporter at The New York Times and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine.
For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
More shows like College Matters from The Chronicle
View all
On the Media
9,163 Listeners
Fresh Air
38,189 Listeners
Teaching in Higher Ed
368 Listeners
The New Yorker Radio Hour
6,670 Listeners
Code Switch
14,548 Listeners
The Daily
111,917 Listeners
Radio Atlantic
2,321 Listeners
Future U Podcast - The Pulse of Higher Ed
131 Listeners
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
6,751 Listeners
Post Reports
5,441 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
15,335 Listeners
The Truth about College Admission
29 Listeners
College Uncovered
88 Listeners
The Headlines
492 Listeners
The Wirecutter Show
1,090 Listeners