Why are All the Universities Folding to Trump?

Authors

• Arnie Arnesen, WNHN
• Jonathan Feingold, Boston University School of LawFollow

Program

#RaceClass

Episode

38

Episode Length

27:00

Media Type

Podcast

Release Date

3-1-2025

Publisher

WNHN

Language

en-US

Abstract

In this episode, Arnie and Jon explore why so many universities have voluntarily scrubbed websites and shuttered still lawful and mission critical diversity, equity and inclusion programs. We also discuss why President Trump's anti-DEI measures are themselves legally suspect. Part of the reason is that Trump's war on DEI rests on, and reinforces, the morally repugnant and empirically bankrupt notion that women and people of color and presumptively incompetent.

Recommended Citation

Arnie Arnesen & Jonathan Feingold, Why are All the Universities Folding to Trump? (2025).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/raceclass/56