Cry me a river. I don’t understand the mindset of these people. From The College Fix:
A University of Utah administrator has said the closure of the school’s DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion — division has been a “grieving process” for many staff members.Lori McDonald, the vice president of student affairs, told Inside Higher Ed in a recent interview the state’s “Equal Opportunity Initiatives” law, which went into effect July 1, also has been “a very significant morale issue” for staff.The law states that “student services be available to all students and not provided to individual students based on ‘personal identity characteristics.’”To comply with the law, the U of U noted in June programs such as the Women’s Resource Center and LGBT Resource Center would be eliminated, but then incorporated into the new Center for Student Access and Resources and Community and Cultural Engagement Center.McDonald (pictured), who emphasized she didn’t want to “come across as defensive in any way,” said the pace of the change since the new law has been “difficult for many of our [university] communities to wrap our heads around.”“I feel that maybe what was missed […] is maybe we don’t take as much time to appreciate how the infrastructure of an institution [traditionally] changes rather slowly,” she said.
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