DEI forces Harvard to now offer 'high school' math courses to its students...

There’s a price to pay when you go all-in on DEI—and the piper always comes calling. You can’t lower standards, abandon merit, and inject politics into everything, then act shocked when the results go straight into the toilet. Life doesn’t work that way. Businesses don’t work that way. And elite universities certainly don’t work that way.

DEI, much like its cousin “woke,” turns everything it touches into complete and total crap. Just ask Disney. They threw their brand under the bus to chase a progressive agenda—and now they’re dealing with the wreckage, most recently with their disastrous Snow White reboot.

“Snow White” earned $1.5 million on Friday. Domestic gross now stands at $72 million, and the film is in serious danger of not even hitting $100 million in North America — a disastrous result for a $250 million Hollywood production. https://t.co/4fzA5S814X pic.twitter.com/dvgNh7mRjh

— Variety (@Variety) April 5, 2025

And now, that same fate has landed right at Harvard’s feet. Once the gold standard of higher education, they’ve become a punchline—rotting from the inside out thanks to progressive nonsense and DEI disasters. It’s gotten so bad, they’re now offering high school-level math to students who can’t keep up—students who have no business being at Harvard in the first place. These aren’t academic standouts—they’re DEI charity cases, picked because of the color of their skin or their sexual fetishes.

Let’s be honest—you don’t need a Harvard Ph.D. to see what’s going on here. When you stop choosing the best and start choosing the most diverse, you don’t get excellence. You get mediocrity, decline, and total embarrassment.

That’s exactly what former law professor Jonathan Turley is sounding the alarm about.

Turley took to X and pointed out that since 1636, Harvard has prided itself on admitting only the best students with the highest scores. And shockingly now, it only took one generation of woke ninnies to wipe all of that greatness out.

Jonathan Turley:

Harvard will offer high-school-level math courses to its students. The remedial assistance has rekindled criticism over Harvard’s move away from standardized tests in making admissions decisions…

…Since 1636, Harvard insisted on the very top scores from students in making this one of the world’s premier universities. Yet, in one generation, the faculty and administrators have reduced its standards to the point that students must retake basic high school courses.

…Since 1636, Harvard insisted on the very top scores from students in making this one of the world’s premier universities. Yet, in one generation, the faculty and administrators have reduced its standards to the point that students must retake basic high school courses.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 8, 2025

What’s happening to excellence and higher education in this country is an absolute travesty. It’s like all the elite schools are in a race to the bottom, trying to see who can fall apart first.

We actually covered this trend almost a year ago, calling it the “George Floyd effect.”

Revolver:

There is a consistent pattern in the examples above indicating an aggressive increase in DEI hires beginning in 2020. Perhaps this indicates something of a “George Floyd Effect” in academia.

Universities have also adapted the technique of “cluster hiring,” where multiple faculty are hired at the same time with a focus on particular specialties, to laser in on left-wing political goals. As explained by John Sailer at the National Association of Scholars, even without diversity statements, cluster hiring makes it easier to rig the system by centralizing the hiring process. Such centralization takes faculty hiring out of the hands of normal academic departments and puts it substantially in the hands of administrators, who are more likely to be obsessed with mindlessly hitting quotas.

What’s important about all these factors is that none of them will actually be mitigated by simply abolishing diversity statements. Rather, we see the truth: Diversity statements are simply a mechanism through which university administrators achieve a political goal: hiring fewer white men and more of everybody else. Academics openly admit to this goal, and they engineer it in many other ways.

But there’s another force coming into play. For years, the university DEI racket has been about finding ways to rig the application process to hire those who are less qualified. But especially since Floyd season began in 2020, there have also been changes to the entire academic ecosystem that are undermining the entire concept of being “better qualified.”

Consider academic publishing. One of the reasons it is typically easy to observe that DEI hires are less qualified than their melanin-deficient competitors is that they often fall substantially (or laughably) short on standard career thresholds for an aspiring scholar. For the regular public, the job of professors is to teach college classes, but in academia, the currency of success is published papers and other recognized research accomplishments. Getting a paper in a field’s top journal (such as Nature or Science for scientific endeavors) greatly improves an academic’s chances of being hired, and the conspicuous lack of such papers from many DEI hires drove home the farce of handing them prestigious jobs.

While battles amongst university faculty get the most attention, quietly behind the scenes, the editors of those top academic journals have been maneuvering to turn the very process of publication into a race- and sex-based spoils system. Right now, instead of being headed by sober-minded scholars, some of the most prestigious journals in the world are led by people who are, speaking charitably, mentally unwell.

You can read the entire piece below:

The Secret George Floyd Effect: DEI Rot in Universities Is Deeper and Darker Than You Imagine

Truthfully, we don’t have an education crisis—we have a competency crisis. That’s why Harvard, of all places, is now offering remedial math. We’re getting dumber, and as a result the standards just keep dropping to make room for more mediocrity and charity. This is what happens when diversity matters more than ability—when it’s more important to churn out average black students than brilliant white or Asian ones. Excellence is sacrificed for optics, and the highly respected institutions that once set the bar for everyone are now tripping over it and falling flat on their faces.

Harvard used to represent the peak of academic achievement. These days it’s basically the Carnival Cruise Line of higher education—dilapidated, watered down, and coasting on its old reputation while the engine’s on fire. DEI isn’t lifting people up. It’s dragging everyone down to the bottom. And until we start rewarding merit and excellence again instead of skin color or trendy social labels, the fall will only get more deadly and dangerous.

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