祸不单行，而在过去19个月里，美国高校可谓两者兼有，这在很大程度上要归功于司法部负责民权事务的助理司法部长哈米特·K·迪隆——她在整个任期内都把校园当作犯罪现场来对待。
Misery loves company, and for the past 19 months, American colleges have had plenty of both, largely thanks to Harmeet K. Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, who has spent her entire tenure treating campuses like crime scenes.
迪隆通过发起咄咄逼人的调查、诉讼和施压行动，废除了300多所高校多年来在多元化、公平与包容方面所做的工作。如今她即将离任，原因是没有得到晋升。
Dhillon undid years of diversity, equity, and inclusion work at more than 300 colleges by launching aggressive investigations, lawsuits, and pressure campaigns. Now she’s leaving because she didn’t get a promotion.
据MS NOW报道，迪隆对于自己未能被提拔到更高职位日益感到不满。她在中期选举前告知政府，计划在选举结束后辞职。
Dhillon had become increasingly frustrated that she had not been promoted to a higher post, MS NOW reported. She told the administration before the midterms that she planned to step down after the election.
“作为助理司法部长为民权事业报效国家，是我一生中的荣幸，”迪隆周四在X上写道。“我们促成了非法多元化、公平与包容政策的垮台，我们为保护妇女和女孩的体育运动而奋斗，还有许许多多。”她说得谦虚了。在迪隆治下，司法部停止调查有关系统性种族主义或性别歧视的指控，并拒绝调查移民和海关执法局官员今年早些时候在明尼阿波利斯对亚历克斯·普雷蒂和蕾妮·古德的致命枪击事件。迪隆的职责本是保护残障人士的权利，她却在社交媒体上的随手发帖中使用了侮辱性称呼“r-word”。
“Serving my country as AAG for Civil Rights has been the honor of a lifetime,” Dhillon wrote Thursday on X. “We ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls’ sports, and so much more.”She’s being modest. Under Dhillon, the Justice Department stopped investigating accusations of systemic racism or sexism and declined to investigate ICE officers’ fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year. Tasked with protecting the rights of people with disabilities, Dhillon has also used the r-word in casual social media posts.
迪隆还把司法部民权司——该部门本是为纠正吉姆·克劳时代的种种不公而设立——变成了一柄无情的大锤，挥向那些开设扶持边缘群体项目的高校。
Dhillon also turned the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department—created to repair the injustices of Jim Crow—into a relentless legal sledgehammer aimed at universities with programs that uplifted marginalized groups.
自2025年4月上任以来，迪隆一直夸耀自己针对高校招生做法开启了100多项调查，指控各高校因维持考虑种族的项目而构成歧视，并因允许校园内存在亲巴勒斯坦活动而指控其存在反犹主义。
Since starting the job in April 2025, Dhillon has bragged about opening more than 100 investigations into university admissions practices, accusing colleges of discrimination for maintaining race-conscious programs and of antisemitism for allowing pro-Palestinian activism on campus.
从某种意义上说，她取得了巨大的成功。自2024年以来，已有300多所校园取消了DEI要求，关闭了DEI办公室，从招聘流程中删除了多元化声明，并更改或删除了其DEI政策。
In a way, she was wildly successful. Since 2024, more than 300 campuses have eliminated DEI requirements, closed DEI offices, removed diversity statements from hiring processes, and changed or removed their DEI policies.
“她败坏了（民权司）的使命，”曾在乔·拜登总统任内担任司法部民权司负责人的瓦妮塔·古普塔在8月对表示。
“She has corrupted [the Civil Rights Division’s] mission,” Vanita Gupta, a former head of the DOJ civil rights division under President Joe Biden, told the in August.
美国进步中心高级研究员妮娜·比蒂在3月对表示，迪隆的努力所产生的后果“将在未来几十年、几十年里持续显现”。“我们多年来在民权和平等方面取得的所有进展，如今都被推后了几十年。”在她的母校弗吉尼亚大学，迪隆发起了一系列调查，促使该校校长——她的法学院同学，曾主导推动学生群体多元化的工作——辞职。
The repercussions of Dhillon’s efforts “will be felt for decades and decades,” Nina Beattie, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, told the in March. “All of the advances that we’ve made in civil rights and equality over the years, they’ve just now been pushed back decades.”At her alma mater, the University of Virginia, Dhillon opened a slew of investigations that prompted the university president—a law school classmate of hers who led efforts to diversify the student body—to resign.
或许她最引人注目的对手是哈佛大学，在其他大学纷纷屈服之际，哈佛多次对司法部的诉讼提出挑战。今年春天，迪隆在六周内两次起诉哈佛，指控该校纵容反犹主义，并向政府隐瞒与种族相关的招生数据。联邦法官驳回了这两起诉讼。
Perhaps her most high-profile foe has been Harvard University, which has repeatedly challenged the DOJ’s lawsuits as other universities capitulated. This spring, Dhillon sued Harvard twice in the span of six weeks, accusing the university of tolerating antisemitism and withholding race-related admissions data from the government. Federal judges dismissed both suits.
迪隆是本周民主党在各级选举中大败共和党后首位离职的高级官员。她可能不是最后一个。据报道，国务卿马尔科·卢比奥也在权衡是否辞职。
Dhillon is the first senior official out the door since Democrats trounced the GOP in races up and down the ballot this week. She may not be the last. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly weighing whether to call it quits, too.