What Is Being Done About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Discrimination?

It is no longer a secret that university bureaucracies are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion – which all lead to discrimination. Jonathan Butcher published an article about this topic in The Daily Signal. 

Butcher wrote that public officials in five states – Florida, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin – adopted proposals last year that “put university systems on notice that DEI departments’ discriminatory activities would be shut down.” He advised his readers to “prepare for more legislators to cobble together provisions that protect students and college employees from DEI’s racial bias.” Butcher gave the following information about actions taken by States.

·         Florida: Lawmakers called for an end to DEI on college campuses in May. In November, the governing board for the state university voted to stop taxpayer funds to stop going to universities to use on DEI.

·         Texas: A new state law “requires state university administrators to begin shutting down campus DEI offices this year.”

·         Utah: Legislators are considering a proposal to prohibit mandatory DEI trainings that advocate for racial preferences or “promotes the differential treatment of an individual” based on race.”

·         South Carolina: Lawmakers introduced a proposal to prohibit colleges from “establishing or maintaining an office or division or other unit by any name whose purpose, in whole or in part, is the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion.”

·         Oklahoma: Legislators “introduced four proposals to enforce Gov. Kevin Stitt’s executive order from last December that said executive state agencies may not use taxpayer funds to ‘grant or support diversity, equity or inclusion provisions, departments, activities, procedures or programs’ that treat people differently based on race or color or national origin.”

·         West Virginia: Lawmakers “are considering a new proposal that bans these loyalty oaths, saying, “No diversity statement shall ever be required or solicited as part of an admissions process, employment application process, hiring process, contract renewal process or promotion process.”