Evan Poellinger
CNSNews Fellow
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Virginia's George Mason University (GMU) has mandated that incoming students must take a pair of courses in a new category called Just Societies, which incorporates Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology.
The course requirement, which will come into effect for students entering GMU in the fall of 2024, is currently in the process of approving courses that will count toward the…
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Biden Administration climate czar, Former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, spoke about the need to pursue net zero emissions and movement away from fossil fuels Monday at a Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) event.
Podesta discussed the ways in which he expects the 2024 presidential election to impact climate policy, declaring “climate is on the ballot, there is no question…
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The Kentucky State House has passed a bill withholding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) funding from the state’s public colleges and universities, joining a larger trend of passing anti-DEI legislation at the state level.
In a 68-18 vote, the House passed Senate Bill 6, which prohibits the spending of taxpayer money on DEI institutions at Kentucky’s public universities, and requires…
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R, FL) has suggested that the United States should begin apprehending and deporting Haitian migrants at sea before they can reach America.
In an interview with NewsNation, Gaetz declared that “Haiti is a failed state right now. The Biden administration officials I was speaking with couldn’t distinguish Haiti from a failed state” and “We know that is the No. 1 push factor that…
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Utah Valley University (UVU) has paved the way as the first university in Utah to remove Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)-focused language from its former diversity office.
In a statement released via Instagram on March 7, UVU announced that the office was being renamed the Office of Institutional Engagement and Effectiveness to meet “recent legislative action governing equity, inclusion,…
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The Fifth Circuit Court of appeals has ruled 2-1 in favor of a Texas law requiring pornography websites to use age verification on their websites. The law, which was signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) last June, and originally scheduled to take effect in December, 2023, mandates such websites “use reasonable age verification methods” in order to “verify that an individual attempting to access…
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The clothing company The North Face is offering a discount to customers who participate in a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) indoctrination course.
The course, entitled Allyship in the Outdoors, describes itself as “a digital course about racial inclusion and allyship.” According to the Daily Wire, the course is designed “to teach customers about racial disparities in outdoor activities”…
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The state of Louisiana is taking stiff measures on crime by adding additional methods of capital punishment, strengthening parole guidelines, and instituting constitutional carry for firearms.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed eleven bills on Tuesday in the aftermath of a special legislative session on crime. Among the bills Landry signed are a bill restoring electrocution as a method of…
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In one of the most substantial anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) decisions by a university to date, the University of Florida has fired all staff who occupied DEI-related positions at the school.
On March 1, the university released a memo detailing the dissolution of the position of the Office of Chief Diversity Officer, and also revealed that it had “eliminated DEI positions and…
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A recent poll from Pew Research revealed that various education-related demographics, from parents and students to teachers, are opposed to the propagation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology in the classroom.
One of the polls, conducted between October 17 and November 14, 2023 among K-12 teachers nationwide found that 41 percent of the 2,531 teachers surveyed said that debates…