CEO chairman Linda Chavez was on PBS this week to discuss, among other current events, the problems with DEI.
Chavez, a regular panelist on PBS’s “To the Contrary” said: “I’m a longtime critic of DEI. I spent 25 years as a Director at Fortune 500 companies. I was the chair of the governance committee. Half of our board members were female—but we didn’t use DEI—we cast a wider net, making sure that we included people who could add value to the company with their expertise. And we got terrific people.”
Chavez added: “The problem with DEI policies, certainly we saw it with college admissions, you can admit somebody with lower grades and test scores but you can’t guarantee that they’re going to graduate.”
“What my Center for Equal Opportunity did over the last 30 years is to do studies and follow the numbers. And what we found is that students who were admitted with substantially lower grades and test scores, which often were black and Latino students at our most prestigious universities, ended up not completing their degrees. That has very bad consequences.”
