UNC-Chapel Hill to Drop ‘Health Equity and Social Justice’ Concentration in Graduate Program
“our current political context was not a factor in this decision”
Now that those high-paying diversity administrator jobs are drying up, what’s the point of studying this?
Campus Reform reports:
UNC to discontinue ‘Health Equity and Social Justice’ concentration in graduate program
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is scrapping a progressive graduate program emphasizing “social justice” and “health equity,” citing low enrollment and a lack of sustainability.
According to an email sent to students on April 4, the Gillings School of Public Health will end admissions to its Health Equity and Social Justice concentration within the Master of Public Health (MPH) program following the fall 2025 cohort.
“We are reaching out to share the heavy news that … Dean Nancy Messonnier has made the difficult decision to discontinue new admission into our Health Equity and Social Justice concentration next year,” the email stated.
Administrators explained in the message that the program failed to meet minimum enrollment requirements and emphasized that “our current political context was not a factor in this decision.”
Alleged Students in the Health Equity Class of 2026 began a petition that accuses the university of attempting to “erase health equity” and calls for the decision to be reversed. The petition also claims that the elimination “undermines Gillings’ commitment toward public health.”
According to the program’s website, the concentration heavily emphasized leftist terminology and frameworks like “structural inequities” and “social justice.”
”The Health Equity and Social Justice concentration will equip students with the skills to: Critically evaluate public health issues based on the historical context, policies, theory, and methodological approaches,” the web page says.
The program also enables students to “[w]ork in diverse teams to assure health equity and social justice principles and practices are adhered to.”
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“our current political context was not a factor in this decision.”