U. Houston Replacing Women and Gender Resource Center With Family Office
“reflects the University’s ongoing commitment to holistic student support and better aligns with the scope of services already offered”
What a shame. The school claims the women’s and gender studies programs have been integrated into other areas.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Houston to replace Women and Gender Resource Center with family office
The University of Houston will close its Women and Gender Resource Center and replace it with a family and parent-oriented office.
This spring, the Cougar Parent and Family Engagement Office will replace the resource center, including the physical office space.
The university did not say whether the closure had anything to do with Texas’s anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) law in an email to Campus Reform, but insisted that the decision was the result of long-term planning.
The university also said it has been working on the reorganization for five years and that the Women and Gender Resource Center’s services have “been fully retained and integrated” by the Dean of Students Office. According to the email, the school has about 2,500 self-identified parents or caregivers.
“The overarching goal is to bring greater visibility and coordination to services and improve access and outcomes for students facing additional challenges outside the classroom,” the institution said in a statement.
“This centralization of student advocacy resources to a single location reflects the University’s ongoing commitment to holistic student support and better aligns with the scope of services already offered,” the statement continued.
“[T]his move allows us to establish a specialized hub tailored specifically for the unique needs of families and parents of students, parenting students, students who age out of foster care and our commuting student population,” he added.
In 2023, Texas state lawmakers passed S.B. 17, which banned public funding for DEI. Over the past year, lawmakers have increasingly applied the bill’s intent to women’s and gender studies programs.
The Texas Tech University System is currently surveying professors about race and gender-based courses. The University of Texas System announced a similar review in September, specifically examining courses that teach about “gender identity.”
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leftists are against family
There have always (at least since WW II) been college staff whose career mission is helping college students adapt to various challenges (i.e., provide counseling, social work, or additional emergency financial assistance.
Over the past 15 years, these people have discovered that funding was available if their mission was labelled “DEI”. Once state laws turned off that possible source of funding, there are people trained to help students in need as well as students facing special challenges.
The University of Houston is refocusing those employee along lines that do not represent discrimination based upon identity groups. Full time students facing the challenge of being a parent or caregiver for a family member should receive help from the college’s Dean of Student’s Office. A current student whose parents lose a job should receive help and advice. A student who needs emergency funds to travel home for a funeral should receive help regardless of identity group.
It is progress that students in need no longer have to declare their identity group as a prerequisite for seeking help. Universities must address the basic human dignity of their students without forcing them into an identity group model.