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Black Male Achievers Program Won't Change Name Under Florida's Anti-DEI Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An academic enrichment program at Tallahassee Community College that primarily serves African American men won't have to change its name under a new state higher education law, reported WUSF. Byran Hooper, program advisor for the BMA, expressed concern for the new higher education law. Tallahassee Community College.

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DeSantis Administration Requires Florida State Colleges and Universities to Report Spending on DEI and CRT

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Florida state colleges and universities must report spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and projects and initiatives related to critical race theory (CRT), per orders from Florida Gov. State law requires dutiful attention to curriculum content at our higher education systems.”. Ron DeSantis In a Dec.

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Outrage Continues Over University of Florida's Removal of DEI Roles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Ahmed, vice provost for DEI at the University of Vermont. “It

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Florida seeks to silence speech on social activism across state schools, per regulation

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Ron DeSantis signed in May that prohibited state and federal being used toward DEI in the Florida College System. Subsection 3 of the regulation also bars state schools and their direct-support organizations from using public dollars on campus activities that “promote or engage in political or social activism.”