U. North Carolina Removes DEI Course Requirements After Trump’s Executive Orders
“DEI requirements of the same substance, but identified by a different name, could further jeopardize federal funding”
It has only been a month and Trump is already having a very real effect on higher education.
Campus Reform reports:
UNC removes DEI course requirements after Trump’s executive orders
Following President Trump’s executive order last month, the University of North Carolina system has removed class requirements that had connections to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The announcement was made in a memorandum written by Andrew Tripp, UNC’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel in the Office of Legal Affairs, on Feb. 5.
Tripp wrote that “all general education requirements and major-specific requirements mandating completion of course credits related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or any other topic identified in Section VII of the Equality Policy are suspended” at each of the university system’s campuses, according to The Hill.
The official described how President Trump’s Jan. 21 executive order prohibits “DEI and DEIA principles,” regardless of whether they are technically under the headings of “diversity,” “equity,” or “inclusion.”
“DEI requirements of the same substance, but identified by a different name, could further jeopardize federal funding,” Tripp asserted, according to KUTV.
Tripp added, according to Inside Higher Ed, that “even though some form of additional federal guidance is expected, and the law in this area remains unsettled, the risk of jeopardizing over $1.4B in critical federal research funding is simply too great to defer action.”
“In all events, no student’s graduation shall be delayed or deferred for failure to satisfy a suspended curricular or program requirement described in this memorandum,” Tripp’s memorandum concluded. “All University enrollment processes going forward—whether for a summer, fall, spring, or any other academic semester—shall comply with this memorandum.”
The University of North Carolina system has been grappling with the question of what to do with its DEI initiatives for some time. Earlier this month, UNC-Asheville’s student government created a “DEI resolution” in support of diversity initiatives at the school.
“UNC Asheville’s [Student Government Association] strongly condemns this policy and the heartless actions of the UNC Board of Governors…they have failed us,” the group asserted.
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They are still free to take the courses. The difference is that they are no longer mandated.
Too bad it’s because of the benjamins and not the toxic ideology, but I’ll take a win.
The Court recently ruled that discriminating for or against people on the basis of their skin color is a violation of the Constitutional prohibitions on discriminating for or against people on the basis of their skin color.
The three dissenting liberals on the Court disbelieve this.