Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, who has led the attack on DEI, applauded the development. "DEI DEI is toxic and has no place in our public universities," he wrote on the X social media site, formerly known as Twitter. I'm glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI and I hope more states follow suit."

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MARCH 26, 2024

Johnson My alma mater, the University of Florida, recently eliminated its DEI positions and offices. Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. Dr. Susan D. It felt both sudden and final.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

George Mason University is pushing back against findings in a recent Heritage Foundation report that the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff is “bloated” and unnecessary. GMU had noticeably high “DEI bloat,” with at least 69 DEI personnel and 938 tenured or tenure-track faculty – a 7.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

Before DEI was a thing, Ms. Because of DEI, before it was a thing , I had access to resources and networks as my peers. DEI leveled the playing field, so people in my situation could succeed. DEI counters such assumptions and within spaces, such as education and the workplace, allows all of us to be positioned for success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

After reading the article “Another Education Fight Over DEI Emerges…” on CNN.com, a daunting thought came over me. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Moreso, it is regarded as an illegal practice in Texas. Dr. Ken Coopwood Sr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Florida’s attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and so-called “woke” disciplines demonstrate a disregard for academic standards of governance and academic freedom, according to an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) report. Ron DeSantis' attacks on higher ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis said he would strip accreditation from colleges and universities with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, MSNBC reported. It’s going to be, instead of ‘You have to have gender studies or you have to have DEI to get accredited,’ it’ll be the opposite. As president, Florida Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) has launched its DEI Data Lab , a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) online initiative to more widely share NSC Research Center data. We are very appreciative of the Cognizant Foundation and all the advisors and creators of the DEI Data Lab to address inequities in education.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

It aims to make universities shut down diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices, ban mandatory diversity training, and restrict hiring departments from asking for diversity statements, all under the threat of temporarily cutting off access to state funds. Brandon Creighton Senate Bill 17 – filed by Sen. Judith Zaffirini.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

The anti-DEI legislation has threatened more than institutional autonomy. Colleges and universities nationwide have established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices for years to increase faculty diversity and help students from various backgrounds succeed at the post-secondary level and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Starting in the 2023 – 2024 academic year, students can now enroll in Muhlenberg College’s Graduate Certificate program in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). As the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Numerous state legislatures are in the news recently, asking their campuses to report budgets and resources devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and for a list of the programs, services and efforts focused on DEI. To identify and cut DEI in higher education. Their goal? But we put the targets on ourselves.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Jeff O Brien, who directs the Institute for Sport & Social Science at the University of Central Florida said that the attacks on DEI are trending across the nation. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and NCAA President Charlie Baker clearly have different opinions when it comes to the future of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Color Us United, a nonprofit that advocates for a “race-blind” America, declared a “historic victory” over DEI efforts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine (UNC). However, a closer look reveals a more complicated picture: DEI may be far from dead at UNC. Stevenson as proof that it has triumphed over DEI at UNC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

One of the effects of the Ohio bill would be the prevention of schools from mandating any DEI training except for school accreditation, federal requirements, professional licenses, or grants. This move comes as other states also attempt to hinder diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in higher ed, such as Florida Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision this year to ban race-conscious admissions and “the attacks that we're seeing subsequently on DEI in the states,” it’s crucial to assess the campus racial climate today, said Hernández-Reyes. “In Unfortunately, there’s only one Black person,” Ava said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The University of Texas System’s board of regents has suspended all new policies promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and asked school leaders to report on their current DEI policies, citing that some practices have “strayed from the original intent,” The Texas Tribune reported. But Texas Gov.

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University Business

MAY 16, 2023

Ron DeSantis signed a spate of bills, the most important one prohibiting Florida’s public institutions from spending money on DEI initiatives, according to a press release. This bill says the whole experiment with DEI is coming to an end in the state of Florida.” One proposed bill aims to defund DEI offices and administrators.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 20, 2023

The University of Arkansas is reallocating all DEI staff and resources to other campus offices. The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville didn’t wait on legislative mandates; last week, the university dissolved its DEI division on its own. Is it a capitulation to right-wing demands or a savvy defense tactic?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Florida's higher education law bans the state's public colleges and universities from spending federal and state money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or campus activities that advocate for DEI, with certain exceptions. Tallahassee Community College.

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Paradigm IQ

JUNE 29, 2023

Banning Affirmative Action Won’t Stop DEI, But It’ll Make it Harder Today’s Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action is, sadly, not a surprise. Over the past few months, as the Court’s decision has drawn cl.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values. Bernal, chief of staff to the president and vice president for inclusion and equity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 4, 2024

The University of Florida has closed its “Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors,” according to an administrative memo published Friday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

Fast forward to 2023 and we are witnessing the massive layoffs of DEI practitioners within corporations who proclaimed themselves to be change agents and masterminds. Organizations and institutions set aside budgets for the purpose of increasing DEI trainings, professional development, and institutional praxis. The things?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The spring semester was a time of great adjustment for colleges and universities in Texas as state schools were forced to disband any office related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Lawmakers aren’t the only ones trying to intimidate Texas administration and faculty to cultivate DEI efforts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 11, 2024

The University of Texas at Dallas has followed the system’s flagship campus in shuttering its Office of Campus Resources and Support—formerly the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which was closed in response to Texas’s anti-DEI law, SB 17,

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 3, 2024

Universities should “Review all college, department or unit-level DEI positions to determine whether DEI-specific job responsibilities are necessary for compliance, accreditation or student and employee support,” the board directed. The orders didn’t stop there.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence, if created and implemented responsibly, can help increase diverse, equitable, and inclusive recruitment and retention, DEI specialist Shayne Halls said during a University of Phoenix webinar Thursday. The event took place as part of University of Phoenix's Educational Equity Webinar Series.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. Ron DeSantis ’s administration, the National Review reported. Ron DeSantis In a Dec. Ron DeSantis In a Dec. The deadline is Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The report also studied how diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-discrimination is perceived in the workplace. One woman told the survey that there was a disconnect in her workplace between rhetoric that supported DEI and the actions taken to enforce DEI. They promote [DEI] and say it but they don’t live it,” she wrote.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

The $5 million allocated to DEI programming has been transitioned into a faculty recruitment fund, according to a memo. In the memo, three senior UF officials underscored the institution’s commitment to “universal human dignity” in light of the demand to disband DEI. A week late, Provost Rahul Shrivastav doubled down.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. I am proud the leadership of both institutions are united on this goal that secures Vanderbilt’s future among the leading research institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Additionally, some are located in states where governors or legislators have banned or severely restricted diversity, equity , and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. She said the information is well known, but Harper's report is much needed in the face of the growing anti-DEI legislation. In the report , Harper noted that only 3.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Additionally, the board of higher education must contract with a third party to conduct a campus climate survey, and it must monitor and report on compliance.

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University Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

At the University of Utah, an applicant’s approach to diversity issues may be a consideration in the hiring process, but there is not any specific “DEI statement” that employees are required to sign, a spokesperson told The Tribune. Cox shares no evidence that Utah colleges require DEI statements—while U. The post Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2023

“This is nothing new,” Edwards said of the recent attacks on voting, LGBTQ, women’s rights and the ongoing attempt by state legislators to eliminate college diversity offices and programming aimed to support students of color. “I That social justice message resonated with those at the forum. “I

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