Many top colleges, including service academies, ‘training a cadre of political commissars’ through DEI certificate programs

Many American colleges and universities are offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) certificates that are not only a “George Floyd anti-racism push” cash grab, but also wildly misleading, according to the founder of CriticalRace.org.

“This is essentially training a cadre of political commissars on DEI to run corporations, to infiltrate and to advance in corporations,” William A. Jacobson told Fox News Digital.

CriticalRace.org, which monitors CRT curricula and training in higher education, has expanded its database to include schools that offer DEI certificates. These certificates, often earned online, allow people to put the names of prestigious schools on their resume when they didn’t actually attend the school, but rather paid for a certificate program displaying its name.

Jacobson, Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and founder of the Legal Insurrection website, founded CriticalRace.org’s sprawling database that has also examined elite K-12 private schools, America’s top undergraduate programs, military service academies, medical schools and others.

“When people think about it, they should think about critical race theory as the theory and diversity, equity and inclusion as to how that theory gets implemented. So, diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, are the action items by which critical race theory is pushed into education and also corporations and government,” Jacobson said.

CriticalRace.org details the exact curricula and training at each school, along with contact information and an overview of every university.

“One of the things we began to notice is nonacademic DEI certificates being issued by colleges and universities. They have programming, and they have separate entities which offer for-pay education certificates on diversity, equity and inclusion,” Jacobson said.

“One of the reasons we thought that was important is that DEI is no longer just in higher education. What started on campuses did not stay on campuses,” he continued. “It’s now in corporate America.” . . . . (read more on Fox News)