The Progressive | C Cruz
Under the guise of promoting “intellectual diversity,” the report says well-established right-wing groups, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Defending Education, the Goldwater Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, and Speech First, have pushed to abolish campus diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and eliminate coursework championing these values. They’ve also crafted model legislation that can be introduced in state legislatures throughout the country to limit faculty input into decision-making, redesign coursework mandates, and restrict research funding.