Syracuse U Replacing Office of Diversity and Inclusion With ‘People and Culture’ Unit
“We want to be welcoming to all, while ensuring full compliance with federal law, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”
None of these diversity offices needs to be replaced with anything. Just shut them down.
Syracuse.com reports:
SU to close diversity and inclusion office; it will launch new ‘People and Culture’ unit
Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse University announced Thursday it will close its Office of Diversity and Inclusion as part of a restructuring effort aimed at complying with federal law.
The office will be folded into a new unit within the Office of Human Resources called People and Culture, according to a statement from Chancellor Kent Syverud to the SU community.
Syverud said the move follows a review launched in March to assess the university’s compliance with federal regulations, including Title VI.
The law prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs that receive federal funding.
“We want to be welcoming to all, while ensuring full compliance with federal law, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Syverud said in the statement.
The announcement comes amid increased federal scrutiny of diversity, equity and inclusion policies on college campuses.
Under the Trump administration, dozens of universities, including Harvard and nearly 90 others, have rebranded or eliminated DEI offices in response to evolving federal policy.
Syracuse’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion was established in 2020 following student-led advocacy for stronger DEI initiatives.
Vice President of the DEI office Mary Grace Almandrez and her team will transition to the new People and Culture unit, Syverud said.
Syverud said the review process included feedback from more than 300 students, faculty, staff, alumni and families.
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This sounds like they’re just moving deck chairs around, not making any real change.
Here was a perfect opportunity to reduce administrative bloat and save students a few bucks in their tuition. Instead the university botched this. It will be the same mission under a different name – how clever.
Heaen’s sake, just can it all and open a student bar.
Is there a place on LI—or any of its affiliated sites—where we can report similar tomfoolery?
What do y’all think about this possibility? What if SU’s new People and Culture unit were to be genuinely focused on making people feel comfortable at the school and maybe even taking steps to encourage people of different backgrounds to meet and get to know each other? In other words, no racial, religious, or sex preferences of any kind in admission, tutoring, grading, or anything else. I’m quite sure that is not what Syracuse is currently planning, but I also think that the department’s new moniker opens opportunities to challenge the school to actually perform some positive functions.. Would you support allowing federal taxpayers’ money to go to a school that pursues the kind of cultural assimilation I tried to describe above?