Iowa State University Shutters DEI Offices in Accordance With New Mandates
“The law bars the universities from having DEI offices, having DEI-specific employees and spending money on DEI — except as required by law or for accreditation.”
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This is happening in state after state. You love to see it.
The Gazette reports:
Iowa university DEI offices now closed
In a national racial reckoning that was revived more than a decade ago when a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed near Orlando, then-Iowa State University President Steven Leath in 2014 shared findings and recommendations from his campus’ “most comprehensive diversity study ever.”
One recommendation urged ISU to distribute “diversity resources” across its colleges and administrative units, allowing them to meet their “diversity goals.” Another recommended investing in a chief diversity officer — which Leath did in 2015, hiring ISU’s first-ever vice president for diversity and inclusion.
Reginald Stewart, earning $215,250 in that role his first year, developed initiatives to boost diversity through recruitment and retention of faculty, staff and students, among other things.
But nearly a decade after Leath’s actions, successor ISU President Wendy Wintersteen is facing new recommendations — or rather, directives — from the Board of Regents and state lawmakers likely to reverse, reduce or review the results from that earlier movement.
“Restructure the central, universitywide (diversity, equity, and inclusion) offices to eliminate any DEI functions that are not necessary for compliance or accreditation,” is the first of 10 mandates the regents issued last fall in response to lawmaker concerns that Iowa’s public campuses are overspending on diversity.
“The Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion was established in 2015 to serve as a central resource, provide advice, and collaborate across campus, the community and higher education organizations,” Wintersteen said in April. “In response to the board’s directive, we will be closing the office in July.”
On July 22, ISU officially closed its DEI office, university spokeswoman Angie Hunt said. The closure cut five positions, although only two of those posts were filled at the time.
“University human resources provided assistance to the two employees affected by the office closing, in line with the university’s reorganization policy,” Hunt said. “One employee applied for and was hired for an opening in another unit on campus. One employee was laid off.”
In addition to the regents’ 10 directives, legislators this spring passed a measure baking into law many of the board mandates and others, adding in repercussions for violations. The law bars the universities from having DEI offices, having DEI-specific employees and spending money on DEI — except as required by law or for accreditation.
“Any person may notify the attorney general of a public institution of higher education’s potential violation,” according to the new law.
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GO CYCLONES!
“Except as required for accreditation” is rather huge loophole, don’t you think? Also, if they were actually getting rid of DEI they’re lay off all their DEI employees.
Unfortunately a great number of these DEI wastrels will be hired into other departments and just continue on doing what they do.
DEI/CRT is such a fraud..
Shut it down.
Somebody ought to hold a tournament with a cash prize.
Pick the sport. Any sport. Badminton. Chess. Cheerleading. Discus throwing.
But the DEI rules of, say, NASA or the DOD or Ibrahm kendi would have to be followed.
What a fun weekend, eh?
A bright young talent could host it. Could be made not a short or long-form documentary.
Along with the logic of DEI explained to us by Pelosi and Army generals etc
Maybe the folks at Daily Wire could executive produce.
Or pick an engineering challenge.
Or a perplexing legal issue challenge.
Form up some teams — some teams based on merit, some teams strengthened by Diversity.
some teams strengthened by Equity.
some teams strengthened by Inclusion.
Give the teams time to solve the problem.
or come up with several possible solutions.
Could be an or a day or a week or a year.
Then, all the teams make their presentations.
And they’re scored.
Expert panel scores.
Audience scores.
Much like Americas Got Talent.
And it’s all filmed.
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Why hasn’t this been done already?
Wouldn’t you think that the advocates/adherents of DEI want to showcase all the good of DEI?