ASU is under investigation by the DOJ for its continued use of DEI. DEI discriminates based on skin color, sex, gender, and religion. ASU has said publicly that it is no longer using DEI. Yet a simple Google search finds that DEI remains all over ASU’s public content.
The web page explicitly says that they hire based on discrimination against protected categories. “We will hire Indigenous, Black and Queer scholars to join us for in-person retreats so that the community can learn storytelling and arts-based approaches from and with these scholars,” Kellam says.
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering makes DEI front and center. It even boasts that Foucault is the one who shapes how the engineering curriculum will be taught to future engineers. Then the page gives you a Venn diagram pushing intersectionality.
The ASU video on this page says that the goal is of engineering is to “tear down some of the institutional structures that in are place that are favoring certain groups of people.” What “certain groups of people?” How would you recognize these groups? Is it based on skin color? And is “tear down”meant physically or metaphorically? And how do we recognize who is privileged and benefited? Is it based on skin color, gender, sex, or religion?
I’d like to hear from you. When you do a Google search of ASU DEI, what do you find?
