Applicants for grants will have to waste less time on showing how their research will benefit minorities. The simple bureaucratic requirements for satisfying DEI requirement regulations are a considerable imposition, especially on smaller universities that don't have a huge infrastructure. It's likely that it could attract, ironically, a broader talent pool of people who no longer fear that, simply because they are a white male or they have political opinions that are not on the left, they are excluded from academia. Of course, in the United States, all this has to be taken in the context of the rather destructive slashing of research budgets and some of the onerous requirements that the Trump administration is applying. The United States at present is a chaotic and complex situation.
