This is not only untrue, but it’s counterproductive. For instance, at WPI, more qualified prospective students are being given lower scholarships than women and minority students in an attempt to improve diversity. The mission of a university should be to produce the highest quality students possible, not to arbitrarily dispense social justice. If you were having a life-saving heart surgery, would you want the doctor admitted to med school because of academic excellence, or lowered admission standards?

Another thing is that no one stops and asks what benefits we will achieve through diversity, what measurable improvements we will make. That’s because there are no tangible benefits, and to ask what are would be too “simplistic” (and also not very profitable for our “diversity consultants”)

Instead of our tuition money going to attract research or better professors, it’s spent hiring “Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners”, which is just like pouring money down the drain.