University of Texas at Austin, Taking Heat for Closing DEI Offices

There's a great bit in the classic 1984 movie "Ghostbusters," depicting two academics who have just been kicked off campus. One of them, Dan Ackroyd's Ray Stantz, is speaking to Bill Murray's Peter Venkman, talking about what they can do next. Stantz complains:

Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've WORKED in the private sector. They expect results.

Sometimes, a line is funny because it's true, and there is nothing in the modern academic world as useless as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. Fortunately, Texas is leading the way in getting rid of these programs; the University of Texas at Austin is apparently doing so under protest.

Per CBS Austin, Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors, blasted UT before a scheduled speaking conference to address the school’s move to cancel DEI on campus and lay off employees.
UT laid off dozens of employees who worked in their DEI programs to comply with a new state law, the university announced last week. The Austin American-Statesman reported that a person with knowledge of the situation said 60 positions that were related to DEI work were eliminated at UT-Austin.
The speaking conference will involve college educators and state civil rights activists, according to CBS.
"The problem is it's really the cruelty is stunning because these are employees whose work it is to help students succeed," Mulvey said.
She went on to say, "And that's who's getting fired. So, my question for the people implementing Senator Creighton's SB 17 is, ‘How does this help students?’ It just there's just no way you can say this is going to help students."

How does this help students? I have a few ideas.

This helps students by allowing them to focus on programs and classes that actually provide them with marketable skills. This is the purpose of education, and it's a purpose to which DEI contributes absolutely nothing.

This helps students by removing a fundamentally divisive program, one that separates students by immutable and meaningless characteristics like melanin content.

This helps students by removing a program that segregates students by race, resulting in such racist practices as "cultural graduation."

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Liberal students were quick to bemoan the cancellation of these no-value-added offices.

Erin McCormick, class of 26, previously told Fox News Digital that most of UT's "large liberal student population" was "pretty irritated or pretty annoyed" by the cancelation of Black graduation.
"It's kind of bummy that they closed it because I feel like Black graduation – it really celebrates the achievement. Just because given the history of Texas and UT alone, Latinos are not always welcome here, not wanted to graduate from here," McCormick said.

"Kind of bummy." I hope Miss McCormick isn't an English major. Here's the thing: Segregating people by race never celebrates anything. There's a matter of principle involved, and the thing about principles is that they apply across the board. If a whites-only ceremony is racist is wrong, then a blacks-only ceremony is also racist and wrong. The University of Texas did students a grave disservice in allowing this crap; it's good that the Texas legislature smacked them down.

Bear in mind that the Biden administration wants to cancel the student loans of young skulls full of mush who get drawn in by this kind of crap.

Texas was right to dump these programs; it's a good first step towards reforming the mess that academia has become in the United States today. All I can say to the now unemployed workers of Texas academic DEI programs is this: Don't go away angry. Just go away.