That comes despite the school abandoning its faculty pledge.
MIT's website shows its continued commitment to keeping its diversity efforts in place.
Institutions and organizations are increasingly canceling their racially-discriminatory DEI initiatives as public opposition grows, with MIT even canceling its faculty pledge requirement in 2024, according to College Fix.
Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman Senior Research fellow in Education Policy for The Heritage Foundation.
He said in an interview with AFN MIT was in the same boat as Harvard.
"MIT was a high-profile institution like Harvard that recently said they were doing away with these, 'loyalty oaths' or DEI statements as a condition of enrollment or hiring. So, it is interesting to see that it still exists in some parts of the institution,” Butcher said.
Getting rid of DEI often requires more effort than just saying you’ll do it.
“Frankly, this is kind of symptomatic of the effort to get rid of racial discrimination across both higher-education institutions, as well as even in private companies and certainly across governments, is that even if you have an entity saying that they are doing away with, say DEI trainings or DEI commitments or these loyalty oaths, there still remains an effort to go across the institutions and make sure that their operations don't violate the Civil Rights Act."
The Civil Rights Act is an historic piece of American legislation, but something that DEI does not line up with.
“The very thing is that I don't believe that this is an effort to do away with racism. It creates racism in its own right, and it is an effort to use racial discrimination to do what they feel like is ‘rebalancing the scales of justice.’ There are those who are notable advocates of DEI, who actually have said in public that they disagree with the Civil Rights Act and don't support it."
DEI is not an answer to racism -- it is a creator of racism.
“So, I think that this whole scenario around DEI is actually an affront to civil rights as we know it in the United States. It is not an effort at equality under the law."
