Georgetown University’s promise to get rid of discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives was just a facade, sophomore Shae McInnis wrote recently at the Daily Caller.
Despite President Donald Trump’s boasts about “end[ing] DEI in America,” McInnis said his administration’s efforts to prioritize merit and free thought continue to be undermined at the prestigious Catholic institution.
As an example, McInnis pointed to Georgetown’s 2025 rebrand of its Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Affirmative Action.
Now the Office for Equal Opportunity Compliance, it supports “non-discrimination” and “equal opportunity,” according to the university. In a statement, Georgetown also stated the office would no longer “give preferences in admissions or employment in ways that violate the law.”
But McInnis, who serves as president of the Georgetown College Republicans, said it soon became apparent that the change was “nothing more than a facade,” writing:
The newly named Office of Equal Opportunity Compliance boasted in emails that “while our name has changed, our work and mission remain the same.” Their pronouncement is audacious yet ominously correct.
Despite ostensibly ensuring “equality” on campus, Georgetown’s OEOC devotes a section of its website to “Diversity Recruitment Sources,” writing that “it is the goal of Georgetown University” to employ “particularly minority persons, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities.” The website further states that “this effort upholds the University’s Affirmative Action Plan,” while listing recruitment sources for professorial searches. These include the “International Lesbian and Gay Law Association,” the “National Hispanic Medical Association,” the “American Business Women’s Association,” and “Blacks in Government.” …
While these examples of institutionalized affirmative action are the most blatant and legally problematic, they are by no means the only way that Georgetown has entrenched DEI and Critical Race Theory throughout its academic initiatives. Last year, Georgetown introduced a mandatory freshman class called “Race, Power, and Justice.” The listed course goals include understanding “global experiences of settler colonialism” as the class seeks to force students to “study race as a historically, socially, and politically generated ideology” and “analyze how race relates to other structures of power and identity.”
Read the full column at the Daily Caller.
