US EditionMilitary academies cancel handful of classes to comply with Trump’s DEI purge
- Following a directive from the Trump administration to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion content, superintendents from three U.S. Military academies testified on Wednesday before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about changes to their curricula and student organizations.
- The push to remove DEI initiatives stems from conservatives' criticism that the academies were promoting a 'woke' agenda, leading to concerns about the strength of the armed forces and the quality of academy applicants.
- West Point removed two courses and twelve cultural and gender-focused affinity groups, while the Naval Academy eliminated two courses and modified eighteen others, and the Air Force Academy identified three courses for potential suspension after reviewing hundreds of courses at each institution.
- Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland, Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, and Gen. Tony Bauernfeind addressed the Senate subpanel, with Gilland stating that only two elective classes with small enrollments were deemed out of compliance, and Davids noting that one removed course was a Gender Matters leadership course and another was an English course titled Gender Sexuality Studies.
- Beyond curriculum changes, the Pentagon also ordered a military-wide purge of DEI content from websites and social media, leading to the removal of at least 50 articles and podcasts from the U.S. Army War College's online journal, War Room, sparking concerns from historians like Jennifer Mittelstadt about threats to an accurate understanding of history and civilian-military relations.
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Military academies cancel handful of classes to comply with Trump’s DEI purge
Only a handful of courses at the military’s service academies have been eliminated to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to scrub diversity programming from their campuses, the academies’ superintendents told a Senate subpanel hearing.
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