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.

Author: Stanley K. Ridgley
Publisher: Armin Lear Press
Published: 03/03/2025
Pages: 458
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781963271737

About the Author
Ridgley, Stanley K.: - Stanley K. Ridgley, PhD is one of the Great Courses Professors the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have dubbed a "rock star professor." 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 electronicintelligence 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.