Universities Launched DEI Degrees After 2020 Unrest. They Don’t Want to Talk About It

For years, Lenore Pearlstein noticed the disconnect: Demand for chief diversity officers and other high-level diversity, equity, and inclusion professionals in academia was on the rise, but few programs actually existed to prepare prospective candidates for the jobs.

To fill the void, Pearlstein, co-publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, partnered with the University of Kentucky, a school her publication had long deemed a “Diversity Champion.”