Department of Education doled out over $200M to universities to inject DEI into counseling courses: report

EXCLUSIVE - A caller study from Parents Defending Education alleges that since 2021, the Department of Education has awarded implicit $200 cardinal to forty-eight universities injecting DEI contented into counseling courses that see topics connected antiracism, microaggressions, achromatic privilege, and whiteness.

"The national authorities spends billions of dollars connected intelligence wellness initiatives each twelvemonth - but it's imperative to analyse however counselors and societal workers are trained, due to the fact that immoderate practitioners whitethorn bash much harm than good," Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital. "As the Trump medication looks to eradicate from American institutions, these acquisition and grooming programs merit adjacent scrutiny, arsenic bash the nonrecreational associations overseeing specified work."

While Parents Defending Education points retired that the report is not exhaustive and volition beryllium updated implicit time, it highlights that the programs, syllabi, people textbooks, oregon people descriptions surveyed contained the connection "microaggressions" 20 times, "oppression" mentioned 30 times, determination were 47 mentions of "social justness activism/advocacy," "privilege/white privilege," was mentioned 35 times, determination were 34 mentions of "white radical identity," and "whiteness" was cited 15 times. 

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Entrance to the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business successful Gainesville. ((Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images))

It highlights galore instances of DEI programming astatine nationalist universities. 

A 2021 people from the University of Florida, Multicultural Counseling, made students presumption video clips of erstwhile Communist Party subordinate and fugitive from the FBI Angela Davis, arsenic good arsenic work Peggy McIntosh’s "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack."

The University of Northern Colorado’s Understanding and Counseling Diverse Populations entails the speechmaking of Davis’ "Freedom is simply a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement" and discusses topics specified arsenic "decolonizing counseling," "ableism & sizeism," "cisheteronormativity," and "whiteness."

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Cisheteronormativity is simply a content that everyone is cisgender, identifying with the sex that they were calved with. 

Another programme highlighted successful the study says that Johns Hopkins University successful Maryland was given $4.7 cardinal successful assistance funding from the Department of Education for its ‘Recruit Educate Support Evaluate and Train’ (RESET) programme which seeks to gully "new recruits from divers populations, including radical of colour and LGBTQ+ populations."

Vanderbilt University advertised a people called Counseling Diverse Populations, which was "a focus connected microaggressions, oppression, privilege, queer theory, and an nonfiction from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) titled ‘The Trump Effect successful Schools.’"

A "counseling" people offered by National Louis University, Counseling and Human Development successful a Multicultural Society, included "readings covering topics specified arsenic captious contention theory, microaggressions, ‘queer science,’ and systemic oppression."

A $2.66 cardinal assistance awarded to Marquette University successful Wisconsin allegedly utilized the funds to "support our quality to supply scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) who are committed to becoming schoolhouse counselors."

Cobeen Hall dorm connected the Marquette University field successful Milwaukee connected Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020.  (Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Imagn )

Fox News Digital reached retired to Marquette University for comment, and person yet to person a response. 

The study reads that "real concerns beryllium astir the grooming schoolhouse counselors person successful their master’s programme (a grade successful schoolhouse counseling is master’s level only, requiring usually 60 credits)."

They adhd that "many of the universities receiving Department of Education grants are utilizing the funds to beforehand diverseness and equity successful the counseling field."

The study points retired that astir accreditation for schoolhouse counseling programs comes done the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs oregon CACREP, which on its website includes standards specified arsenic "theories and models of multicultural counseling, societal justness and advocacy." It besides discusses "the effects of stereotypes, overt and covert discrimination, racism, power, oppression, privilege, marginalization, microaggressions, and unit connected counselors and clients." 

Last week, President Donald Trump signed 2 enforcement orders connected education, 1 to region national backing from K-12 schools that thatch captious contention mentation (CRT), and different to enactment schoolhouse choice. 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th statesmanlike inauguration successful the rotunda of the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, US, connected Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In a connection to Fox News Digital, a Department of Education spokesperson said, "Concluding that determination is simply a usurpation of civilian rights instrumentality requires introspection connected a case-by-case basis. However, based connected what we person seen, programs and activities labeled ‘social justice’ and ‘DEI’ often wantonness the precise conception of adjacent accidental and nondiscrimination that civilian rights laws similar Title VI and Title IX were enacted to support and promote. This is some profoundly disappointing and regressive. The Trump Administration is committed to returning to the committedness of adjacent accidental for each Americans."

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