Utah Public Universities Ending DEI Programs to Comply With State Law
“Since the signing of the legislation into law, at least one Utah school has renamed its DEI department in an attempt to evade the ban.”
This is happening in so many red states now. People have finally caught on to what DEI is really about and why it is harmful.
Campus Reform reports:
Utah universities dismantle DEI to comply with state law
Two public universities in Utah, Weber State University and the University of Utah, are taking steps to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and positions.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill into law, HB 261, on Jan. 30 that forbids DEI training and other DEI initiatives in state public colleges and universities, as well as in Utah’s state government.
Since the signing of the legislation into law, at least one Utah school has renamed its DEI department in an attempt to evade the ban.
Brad Mortensen, President of Weber State University, stated that the university is dismantling its “cultural centers,” and also changing the vice president of DEI position into an associate vice president for student success.
Weber State’s website currently lists five cultural centers: the Black Cultural Center, Pasifika Cultural Center, Pan-Asian Cultural Center, Hispanic & Latino Cultural Center, and Native American Cultural Center.
“Housed within the Centers for Belonging and Cultural Engagement are individual centers created to provide independent and dynamic interactions with the goal of encouraging and celebrating you and your peers,” the university cultural centers web page explains.
The school intends to change and combine all of these programs into one single initiative under the working name of “Student Success and Engagement.” Mortensen explained: “There will be navigational coaches and student engagement program managers who are open to all students, without an assignment to a particular identity, to really help make students navigate their college experience.”
Mortensen also stated that part of the plan is to continue implementing DEI policies as long as they do not directly violate the law: “I was challenged by one faculty member who said, ‘Well, how can you have inclusion if it’s invisible?’ We’re taking the brave optimist approach and trying to do it within the bounds of the law.”
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and by “ending” they mean
yeah right wink wink nod nod
the new name will be called the
you are for blm or face the violence..law
do you know if your heart surgeon is a DEI push-through?
how do think the (black) surgeons, who made it by their own sweat, feel?
and thats how the game is played
if you are a poc you can say you are not comfortable with a white dr
but if you are white and say you are not comfortable with a black dr…….LOOK OUT!!
Time to cancel DEI programs for toxic anti-white rhetoric. BLM is such a fraud. There will be no reparations.