Update: CA Community Colleges backs down on forcing faculty DEI alignment

February 13, 2025 Even when condemned to death, free speech bastion—and teacher—Socrates refused to relinquish his ideas. (Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787. Image by Wikimedia Commons.) After CA Community Colleges adopted a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mandate for profs in 2023, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed suit for six…

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☆ “We are a free market country:” Tony Guan on how racial preferences stifle prosperity.

Special Reports February 9, 2026 A couple decades after Prop 209 protected non-discrimination rights for all Californians, Prop 16 tried to re-impose racial quotas. Local grassroots organizer Tony Guan worked tirelessly to defeat Prop 16 by showing how affirmative action actually hurts the Asian community and erodes the rights of all Californians. An Opportunity Now…

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CA judge argues community colleges’ DEI mandates are flagrantly unconstitutional

December 5, 2023 Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury: Galileo before the Holy Office. Image in Public Domain Magistrate Judge Christopher Baker’s new 44-page report advises that CA Community Colleges and Kern Community College District (both of which face a lawsuit from Bakersfield prof Daymon Johnson) stop requiring faculty to submit to DEI ideology. Judge Baker explains that mandating…

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