Tue Sep 26, 2023 – 5:20 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – So-called “diversity, equity, & inclusion” (DEI) training in academia and the corporate world is not only ineffective but harmful to its own theoretical goal of more tolerant environments, according to a Harvard scholar who was at the forefront of the DEI movement.
On September 17, The Wall Street Journal published an article by Harvard social scientists Mahzarin Banaji and Frank Dobbin, which, while continuing to vouch for the stated purpose of DEI programs, acknowledges there is “no question that the way organizations deal with it is more likely to hurt than help.”
“[A]fter decades of diversity training, many university faculties, state agencies and corporations have made little progress on diversifying the workforce,” they wrote. The admission is significant due to Banaji’s long-standing promotion of DEI concepts; in 1998, she co-founded Harvard’s Project Implicit research collaborative, whose work “forms the basis of our scientific knowledge about bias and disparities.”
The piece cites research by Dobbin and colleague Alexandra Kalev as showing the “typical DEI training doesn’t educate people about bias and may even do harm.” In a 2021 Economist article, Dobbin and Kalev write that biases cannot
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