STARRS TOWN HALL
STARRS invites you to attend a Town Hall via Zoom
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Noon Eastern | 11 am Central | 10 am Mountain | 9 am Pacific
GUEST SPEAKER:
Stanley Ridgley, PhD
Professor, Former Military Intelligence Officer
Author of the new book: “DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education”
and
“Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities“
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.
He’ll discuss his new book, “DEI Exposed” which puts the spotlight on the Big Con of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As 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, the lavishly paid DEI bureaucrats, 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.
We will also give an update on STARRS activities.
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About the Guest Speaker:
Stanley K. Ridgley, PhD is one of the Great Courses Professors the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have dubbed a “rock star professor.” In addition to his new book, “DEI Exposed,” he is the author of BRUTAL MINDS, the 2023 expose on higher education that reached #1 on Amazon’s Democracy Bestseller list. Ridgley is also the author/presenter of Strategic Thinking, the million-dollar best-seller video course published by The Great Courses.
Dr. Ridgley is Clinical Full Professor of Management at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. At Drexel, he serves on the faculty senate. He holds a Doctorate and Master’s in International Relations from Duke University and an International MBA from Temple University.
He has also studied at Moscow State University and the Institut de Gestion Sociale in Paris. Dr. Ridgley is a former Military Intelligence Officer and served five years in West Berlin and near the Czech-German border, where he received the George S. Patton Award for Leadership in Bad Toelz, West Germany. Dr. Ridgley’s intelligence activities versus the Soviet Union included signals and electronic intelligence as well as Russian translation and analysis. He served as a tactical intelligence officer on the German frontier with a combat arms unit and as a liaison officer during Soviet military inspections.
Dr. Ridgley teaches courses on Strategy and Competitive Advantage, Technology Innovation, International Business, and Competitive Intelligence. He has lectured and presented widely in the United States, Russia, China, India, France, Singapore, Spain, and Colombia.
Dr. Ridgley is a staunch defender of Individualism and Enlightenment values in the university as the best defense against the seduction of authoritarians, charlatans, political poseurs, and noxious ideologues of every sort.