In just a short time, education has radically changed — wokeness is now fueling America’s academic fire. Apropos of culture’s hottest trend, an elite business school has launched a new degree program.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business is as esteemed as they come. As you may know, it’s Donald Trump’s alma mater. It’s also lunging toward a modern mode, hence its new announcement.

“Beginning academic year 2023-2024,” the school’s website heralds, the “MBA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Major” will be rolled out.

Included courses:

• Business Economics and Discrimination
• Big Data, Big Responsibilities
• Leading Diversity in Organizations
• Reforming Mass Incarceration and the Role of Business
• Influence
• Prison Education
• Power and Politics in Organizations

One might expect business — a realm based in practicality and profits — to escape the clutches of wokeness. But for the aspiring DEI officer, enlightenment is big business.

Behind most every woke decision is an officially credentialed advocate — or a committee of them. Call it a booming industry:

Coke Changes Its Policy, Will Hire Law Firms That Meet a Quota for Black Attorneys

Google Will Now ‘Inclusively’ Convert Your Words to Wokeness

19th Century Bank Adds Pronouns to Teller Name Tags, Invites Unwoke Customers to Close Their Accounts

A Whistleblower Shares a Racial Justice Lesson From Coca-Cola: ‘Try to Be Less White’

Salary.com relays the incentive to pursue DEI:

The average Chief Diversity Officer salary in the United States is $227,900 as of September 26, 2022, but the range typically falls between $196,200 and $275,700. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession.

It pays to be a bureaucrat, and positions designed to discover problems and solve them are — it seems — never declared obsolete. The world has unlimited horrors in need of address. And to DEI officers’ benefit, at issue are three separate categories to be mined for evident relevance: If you can’t presently justify your job with diversity concerns, turn your attention toward equity. We’ll never attain a perfect state of sameness, so the work is ongoing.

As for general wokeness, as a school, Wharton is late to the party:

Yale Publishes Blueprints to Inject ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Into All 25 Departments

An Elite All-Boys School Will Allegedly No Longer Call Them ‘Boys’

University Tells White Students to Stop Exhausting Everyone Else

Study Shows University Wasted Millions in Tax Dollars on DEI, School Blames the Wickedness of Whiteness

We’re living in a new world. The old virtues have been replaced, as have the outdated enemies. We’re engaged in a fight for justice, of the social variety. And our warriors leading the charge are highly-paid officers. So get your master’s in DEI — although those who do will probably soon cancel the designation of “master’s.”

-ALEX

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