DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education

DEI Exposed puts the spotlight on a Big Con: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

DEI gurus siphoned funds for education into social engineering programs. They suckered and swindled some of the smartest people in the U.S., cost universities dearly in terms of funds and reputation, and ruined the livelihoods of countless faculty members.

DEI has fueled antisemitism on college campuses and, ironically, robbed many students of fair treatment and freedom of speech-two things DEI advocates supposedly champion.

How did the hustlers pull it off?

This book documents the dubious credentials of DEI superstars, the use of cult conversion tactics on students, the cultivation of campus informants to instill fear and suspicion, and the lawsuits that reveal DEI's virulent racialism at a high cost to universities in bad publicity and legal damages.

DEI Exposed maps this corruption so that we can chart a course for a restoration of higher education for years to come.

Ridgley reveals the striking contradictions between DEI's stated aims and its practical effects.

- Ram Mudambi, Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy, Fox School of Business, Temple University

The DEI monster has continually sprouted new tentacles, and Ridgley has given us an account of how it came to be its lurid self.

- Bruce Gilley, author of The Case for Colonialism

With razor-sharp analysis, Ridgley dissects how higher education compromised itself, abandoning merit and intellectual vigor in favor of pseudoscience and ideological conformity.

- Nicholas Giordano, Professor of Political Science and host of The P.A.S. Report Podcast

Dr. Stanley K. Ridgley is Clinical Full Professor of Strategic Management at Drexel University. He holds a Doctorate and Master's in International Relations and Security from Duke University and an International MBA from Temple University. He is a Russian language linguist and former Military Intelligence Officer.

© 2025 Armin Lear Press (Audiobook): 9781963271942

Release date

Audiobook: 2 April 2025