Leftists don’t quit; they just rebrand. If a leftist-run university comes up with a dumb idea, it will almost always rebrand to keep that dumb idea alive — even when it has been tried in the real world and proven to be harmful. Such is the case with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

According to the national grassroots organization Defending Education, there are still hundreds of active DEI offices on campuses across the country despite the Trump administration’s directive to federally funded colleges and universities to end the illegal and discriminatory DEI practices. A January executive order from President Donald Trump declared, “Illegal DEI … policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”

Only 18 universities complied.

Most have chosen to outright defy the White House and keep their DEI offices as originally named — such as the entirety of University of California-affiliated schools. Others have simply rebranded their offices. The University of Tulsa has renamed its DEI office the Office for Resilience and Belonging. Kansas State University has renamed its DEI program the Office of Access and Opportunity.

The report summarizes:

To date, Defending Education has tracked 245 universities which still have institution-wide DEI offices and/or programming in operation, 180 schools or colleges (such as Colleges of Education, Engineering, or Medicine, etc.), with an overall total of 403 currently active DEI offices and programming.

Additionally, 28 institutions and schools/colleges appear to have renamed or rebranded their DEI offices, 18 universities have removed webpages and/or shut down DEI initiatives, and in a few cases, have moved the DEI webpage behind an institutional login.

Trump’s Department of Justice is being kept very busy with litigation. Just as President Joe Biden did before him, President Trump is withholding taxpayer funding from schools that do not comply.

In a speech at the University of Virginia, state Attorney General Jason Miyares quoted an important pair of questions: “Plato asked … the two most important questions for civilization: who teaches the children, and what do they teach them?”

For most, it’s public K-12 education, and higher ed adds the finishing touches. What does this education often produce, according to Miyares? “College campuses graduates that are graduating in two fluent languages — they’re fluent in the language of anti-Semitism and fluent in the language of anti-Americanism. That should give all of us pause.” College graduates are also fluent in neo-Marxism, which is at the heart of DEI because it defines people as either oppressor or oppressed based purely on their race, gender, sexuality, or identity.

It has produced scholars who are more inclined to justify the actions of assassins like Luigi Mangione or proclaim the martyrdom of thuggish men like George Floyd than fight to prevent the tragedies that happened to people like Rachel Morin or Austin Metcalf, both white victims slain by aggressors of color. DEI and its poisonous roots are behind this lack of justice, reasoning, or morality.

It’s a shame that these schools are so far beyond reason that they cannot voluntarily relinquish their bad ideas, but instead have to be strong-armed by the federal government. Colleges and universities, with the help of their DEI appendages, are gleefully teaching a generation the tenets of greed and hatred. It’s up to all of us to undo this warping.