{"id":1667783,"date":"2026-03-06T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1667783"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:40:00","slug":"bad-faith-noncompliance-virginia-schools-flout-supreme-court-and-trump-with-dei-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/bad-faith-noncompliance-virginia-schools-flout-supreme-court-and-trump-with-dei-rebrand\/1667783\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court And Trump With DEI ‘Rebrand’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court And Trump With DEI ‘Rebrand’<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Teresa R. Manning via American Greatness<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

Just over a year ago, President Trump issued two\u00a0executive <\/a>orders <\/a>banning destructive diversity ideology (a.k.a. \u201cDEI\u201d or \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d) from the federal government and its contractors, including colleges and universities<\/strong>. The EOs sought to restore merit as the basis of hiring, advancement, and college admissions.<\/p>\n

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Both EOs reinforced prior actions by the president as well as by the Supreme Court:<\/strong> In his first term, Trump signed EO 13950<\/a>,\u00a0Combatting Race and Sex Stereotypes,<\/em>\u00a0which banned divisive concepts based on race and ethnicity, a measure duplicated in\u00a0many states<\/a>; and in June of 2023, the Supreme Court decided\u00a0Students for Fair Admission v.\u00a0Harvard <\/em><\/a>(\u201cSFFA\u201d),\u00a0<\/em>which found\u00a0that diversity rationales for racial preferences in admissions were themselves discriminatory and therefore unlawful.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding these major legal developments against DEI, colleges and universities, especially in Virginia, are continuing business as usual to promote it<\/strong>, albeit under different names, a move known as rebranding. \u201cTo avoid scrutiny,<\/a>\u201d said one official at the University of Virginia, diversity offices are now called offices for \u201ccommunity and belonging,\u201d while \u201cqueer brunch\u201d is now marketed as \u201ccozy brunch.\u201d At George Mason University, the DEI office is now called the Office for Access, Compliance, and Community\u2014<\/a>same staff, same stuff. They do this even though Trump\u2019s EO explicitly banned rebranding, stating such programs are illegal\u00a0<\/a>\u201cunder whatever name they appear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, bad actor schools are engaged in bad faith noncompliance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this 250th anniversary year of America\u2019s founding, we should remember that the word \u201cdiversity\u201c is absent from our foundational documents: it does not appear in either the Declaration of Independence or in our\u00a0Constitution.<\/p>\n

How, then, did \u201cdiversity\u201d become so ubiquitous\u2014in education, government, and corporate America\u2014and what does it really mean?<\/p>\n

\u201cDiversity\u201d is in fact a top-down, divide-and-conquer strategy pitting Americans against each other based on race, ethnicity, and sex (and now including \u201cgender\u201d and gender ideology).<\/strong> It distracts from\u2014and detracts from\u2014talent and excellence, actually encouraging racial discord as everyone must have skin color or race in mind, rather than achievement or moral character. Accordingly, it destroys nations. Only corrupt politicians, owned and controlled by anti-American handlers, could parrot the lie that \u201cDiversity is our strength.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many date the debut of diversity ideology from the 1978 Supreme Court case,<\/em> Regents of the University of California\u00a0v. Bakke, <\/em><\/a>where the medical school of the University of California at Davis had a special admissions program reserving 16 of its 100 open spots for minorities, often with lesser qualifications than white applicants, such as complainant Allan Bakke. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell announced in this opinion that \u201cdiversity\u201d was a legitimate governmental interest. But he and the other justices rejected the medical school\u2019s rigid quotas to get there\u2014insisting, instead, that race should be one of many different criteria for admission even while stating that \u201cracial and ethnic considerations are inherently suspect\u201d under the Constitution.<\/p>\n

These ambiguities guaranteed more fights about the role of race in college admissions and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

In 2003, the Court made matters worse in Grutter v. Bollinger,\u00a0<\/em><\/a>where Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor elevated \u201cdiversity\u201d from a permissible state interest to a compelling one, finding that the University of Michigan law school\u2019s racial preferences in admissions were lawful, provided they were tailored and individualized.<\/p>\n

Historically, \u201ccompelling state interests\u201d concerned public safety, national security, or the protection of minor children. With no history, tradition, or textual basis to do so, the Grutter\u00a0<\/em>Court\u00a0not only shoved\u00a0diversity onto this list but also put it above a citizen\u2019s right to equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Constitution\u2019s Fourteenth Amendment. For this reason, many called the decision illegitimate. In practice, this case was the official government stamp of approval for\u00a0discrimination against Christian, heterosexual men of European descent, as they are the only demographic said not to contribute to diversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In short order, campus bureaucracies, federal programs, and corporate trainings trumpeted DEI\u2014often barely defined. Now, however, documents show\u00a0<\/a>that employers such as\u00a0Amazon<\/a> benefit from \u201cdiversity,\u201d but employees decidedly do not: a divided workforce helps prevent unions<\/a> as well as other forms of protection for workers\u2019 rights. Similarly,\u00a0campus administrators<\/a> with few real or marketable skills no doubt also benefit from DEI, while serious students decidedly do not: university bureaucrats in DEI \u201cBS Jobs\u201d<\/a>\u00a0are paid handsomely with unprecedented student loan amounts. Graduates get the debt; campus bureaucrats get the paychecks.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the high Court corrected itself in the 2023\u00a0Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard<\/a>,\u00a0a\u00a0case\u00a0w<\/em>here DEI was rejected and its rationales found to be incompatible with the equal protection of laws.<\/strong> Chief Justice John Roberts explained that DEI itself presumes that skin color or ethnic background results in a \u201ccharacteristic viewpoint,\u201d a form of racial stereotyping forbidden by civil rights guarantees. Diversity ideology is also incoherent and incapable of judicial review. (Transsexuals now add diversity? Perhaps pedophiles will too?) If race is a plus for some, he pointed out, it is necessarily a minus for others\u2014which is to say, even individualized approaches result in illegal racial discrimination. Finding racial preferences in college admissions unlawful, Roberts went on to broaden the holding, saying, \u201cEliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is in this context that President Trump\u2019s January 2025 executive orders were issued. The administration is following up on the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark SFFA decision, a case that took years for the courts to decide and which corrected the destructive\u00a0Grutter<\/em>\u00a0opinion.<\/p>\n

It is also the context in which colleges and universities are brazenly flouting the law.<\/p>\n

The actions of Trump and the Supreme Court have prompted Offices for Civil Rights at both the Justice and Education Departments to launch investigation<\/a>s into a number of colleges and universities, including in Virginia;\u00a0a\u00a0federal appeals court\u00a0<\/a>recently\u00a0upheld\u00a0<\/a>the administration\u2019s actions. Resolution agreements have been reached in some instances. And that is all to the good.<\/p>\n

But the record shows that schools do not operate in good faith. That means that agreements on paper must be enforced, checked, and\u00a0double-checked\u00a0<\/em>to have real effect in practice.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope that will also happen\u2014with special attention paid to bad faith rebranding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Teresa R. Manning is Policy Director at the National Association of Scholars, President of the Virginia Association of Scholars, and a former law professor at Virginia\u2019s Scalia Law School, George Mason University.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 03\/06\/2026 – 17:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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