More Winning: ASU Retreats on DEI Ideology

It turns out losing $400 million in federal funding is a language universities suddenly understand.

Arizona State University (ASU) has begun fundamentally changing its webpages, quietly removing DEI rhetoric. Columbia University, after being hit with a $400 million federal funding cut, is undoubtedly taking notes. And if President Trump is correct, this is only the beginning of the crackdown on universities using DEI as a cover for discrimination.

For years, DEI was presented as a movement to promote diversity, inclusion, and equality. In reality, it functioned as an institutionalized program of race and gender-based discrimination—all under the guise of justice. The fundamental flaw of DEI was always this: it claimed to fight discrimination with discrimination. It taught students and employees to hate those deemed “oppressors,” and you could figure out who the oppressors were just by looking at their skin color.

The priests of DEI wrapped their ideology in inclusive-sounding language, but their mission was never inclusion—it was division, punishment, and power. Their ideological stranglehold on the university system is breaking, and no amount of “diversity statements” will change the reality: DEI was never about fairness. It was about control.

Professors dedicated their lives to BLM and DEI and now these are not simply going away they are exposed as frauds and promoters of hate. These professors who spoke so confidently about justice and supporting the downtrodden now have this embarrassing legacy tied to them forever.

A Reminder: Humans Are Sinners

If there is one lesson to take away from this episode, it is this: humans are sinners. The fantasy of DEI was that discrimination could be eliminated by replacing one set of power structures with another—by punishing new groups in the name of justice. Instead, we saw that the “oppressed” are equally guilty of hating their neighbor and discrimination based on race and sex. Sin is not erased by shuffling power around. It is only redeemed through Christ.

This isn’t just a victory for legal fairness. It is a victory for truth. Universities are finally being forced to take the law seriously. If Columbia’s financial hit isn’t enough of a warning, perhaps ASU’s scramble to erase its ideological tracks will be. Either way, the days of DEI dominance are fading.