Iowa House Bill Targets Private Universities With DEI Offices
“The Iowa House passed the bill on Tuesday.”
This just goes to show how severe the backlash to DEI policies has become.
Campus Reform reports:
Iowa House passes bill targeting private universities with DEI offices
The Iowa legislature could soon target private universities for maintaining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices. If enacted, the bill would be the first state law penalizing private universities for having DEI offices.
House File 2488 removes funding through the Iowa Tuition Grant from private universities that maintain DEI offices. The Iowa House passed the bill on Tuesday.
According to the bill, DEI refers to “[a]ny effort to manipulate or otherwise influence the composition of the faculty or student body with reference to race, sex, color, or ethnicity, apart from ensuring colorblind and sex-neutral admissions and hiring in accordance with state and federal antidiscrimination laws.”
Adam Guillette, the president of Accuracy in Media (AIM), a watchdog organization, indicated his support for this bill on Thursday. In August, AIM published an undercover video showing an Iowa State University official claiming DEI remains at the school.
The organization “strongly supports any effort to remove hateful, divisive DEI from education,” Guillette told Campus Reform.
Of the 32 Iowa private universities, two have offices with explicit DEI language in their titles.
Drake University’s Office of Equity and Inclusion “values diversity as an institutional strength that encompasses a broad range of human differences.”
“We acknowledge the role Drake University can play in redressing historic injustices that result in continued marginalization of members of specific groups and seek to understand and respond to contemporary calls for inclusivity as necessitated by social justice,” the office’s web page says.
Similarly, Grinnell College maintains a Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The division’s page clarifies that its DEI initiatives “DO NOT create or result in illegal discrimination under any federal or state law.”
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all a ruse
leftists are leftists and patriots of freedom …remain the same
why are they changing anything if they were right in what they were/are doing !!?
It’s no surprise that Grinnell has a DEI office. This is one Grinnell grad who stopped giving to the college several years ago. I gave up on the college when they gave $50,000 to Black Lives Matter. When I pointed out that the gift meant I couldn’t rely on them spending my money as agreed, the response was “I never thought of it that way.” In Grinnell’s case, too much money has turned their minds to mush.
How does Grinnell square saying that a program specifically intended to discriminate does not result in unlawful discrimination?
The dope sold on or around campus must be pretty good.