Arizona State University proudly boasts that the W.P. Carey School of Business is a premiere business school. But there’s a problem—one so deeply embedded in its DEI policies that it’s hard to see how the school can continue applying for federal funding and student loans while failing to comply with federal law.
Take a moment to watch this video, where I simply scroll through W.P. Carey’s own web page. The school defines “inclusive excellence” as directing more resources to students they identify as part of a “marginalized” group. And what determines marginalization? Skin color and gender.
First up, you’ll see the W.P. Carey Land Acknowledgment. Then, the Council for Inclusive Excellence. Then a statement from the Dean about DEI-B. Next, they give us their demographic breakdown. Notice that “underrepresented” and “minority” are linked. That’s what gives them away. In their mind, to be a minority is to be underrepresented rather than—to be a minority.
How do they determine if a group is “underrepresented?” That is a value statement, not a fact statement. Who decides what the representation should be so that ASU can say they are now correctly represented?
If the percentage of minorities in their school is equal to the community in which they belong, then the minority group is not statistically underrepresented. On the other hand, it could be that whites are underrepresented statistically. But on their metrics, that is impossible. W.P. Carey is in the business of social justice and redistribution of wealth.
This means ASU isn’t merely saying, “We admit whoever qualifies,” which is what “inclusion” should mean. Instead, it has taken upon itself the role of redistributing resources based on its own racial and gender criteria. The W.P. Carey School is not just virtue-signaling—it’s engaging in systemic discrimination under the guise of “equity.”
A quick glance at their materials shows their focus on myths like the so-called gender pay gap and their program in the “color of money,” which argues that outcomes prove racism—standard cultural Marxism. Yawn. It takes Jordan Peterson under 5 minutes to disprove both of these (gender pay gap and different outcomes = racism). But these aren’t business principles; they’re ideological talking points dressed up as economic policy—and now they may violate federal law.
So here are two pressing questions:
Will ASU attempt to comply with federal law by scrubbing these policies from its website, as the University of Arizona did yesterday?
Do parents and students really want to attend a business school where your access to resources is judged not by merit, but by the color of your skin?
The marketplace rewards competence, not quotas. If W.P. Carey wants to prepare students for the real world, it should start acting like a business school instead of a social justice think tank.
Want a merit-based business education? Look elsewhere. And yes, I forward these posts to the appropriate government officials.
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