‘Grieving Process:’ U. Utah Vice President Bemoans Closing DEI Office
LOL: “a very significant morale issue.”
Cry me a river. I don’t understand the mindset of these people. From The College Fix:
A University of Utah administrator has said the closure of the school’s DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion — division has been a “grieving process” for many staff members.
Lori McDonald, the vice president of student affairs, told Inside Higher Ed in a recent interview the state’s “Equal Opportunity Initiatives” law, which went into effect July 1, also has been “a very significant morale issue” for staff.
The law states that “student services be available to all students and not provided to individual students based on ‘personal identity characteristics.’”
To comply with the law, the U of U noted in June programs such as the Women’s Resource Center and LGBT Resource Center would be eliminated, but then incorporated into the new Center for Student Access and Resources and Community and Cultural Engagement Center.
McDonald (pictured), who emphasized she didn’t want to “come across as defensive in any way,” said the pace of the change since the new law has been “difficult for many of our [university] communities to wrap our heads around.”
“I feel that maybe what was missed […] is maybe we don’t take as much time to appreciate how the infrastructure of an institution [traditionally] changes rather slowly,” she said.
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its an act
they are not closing anything but their minds to common sense
dei is just the new way of saying affirmaction
its here forever
All of the public universities in Texas had to close their DEI centers, and all of them are reopening in decentralized fashion under different names. Nothing ever changes in whackademia—they just get redistributed and renamed.
Well, you wouldn’t expect them to do without the wonderful DEI gravy train, would you?
“I don’t understand the mindset of these people.”
“Lori (K.) McDonald, the vice president of student affairs”
Crazy white chick.
Same demographic that invented the “death-row groupie,” again mourning the indefensible.
(Despite that awful photo at IHE, in which she strongly resembles Admiral Rubbermaid, she really was assigned female at birth.)
thanks
that pic should come with a warning sign
I wish the various universities that are closing DEI offices and positions would compute and advertise the resultant reduction in tuition and savings to students. These universities seem to have little compunction to adding administration staff and charging students. This society should be insisting on value for education rather than accepting larded up university administrations.
“I feel that maybe what was missed […] is maybe we don’t take as much time to appreciate how the infrastructure of an institution [traditionally] changes rather slowly,” she said.
What an odd statement since DEI offices arrived seemingly overnight in universities.
Well, if it induces some staff to leave, that’s a plus, and yet another reason to support this law.
Read the whole thing to see the clarification that the new law still allows colleges to have various identity centers, it’s just that these centers’ purpose must now be purely educational and not the provision of services, and that their educational programs must be open to all. So you can have a women’s center to teach about women’s issues, but anyone can attend such courses, and women who require services can get them in the same place everyone else gets them.
She should try mourning the death of common sense and scholarship under the left and the DEI policies