Reports of DEI’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

null By Hal R. ArkesJan. 10, 2024 6:14 pm ETWonder Land: College Presidents' spineless response to antisemitic protests are the culmination of academia’s plummet the past 50 years which has included grade inflation, speech codes, trigger warnings and ultimately cancel culture. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyDEI is down but not out. Several states, universities and corporations signaled their retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion programs last year. Yet despite these developments, the movement remains alive and well thanks in part to the implicit-association test: a popular tool that has been used to claim that most of the U.S. is racially prejudiced. Three scholars first introduced the concept in a 1998 article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology titled, “Measuring Individual Differences in Implicit Cognition: The Implicit Association Test.” The article describes how researchers measured how quickly respondents associated “good” and