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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations. We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” But he acknowledged that the SCOTUS ruling likely has taken an emotional toll on admissions and DEI specialists.

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17 Must-Attend & Virtual Higher Education Marketing Conferences for 2023-2024

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

With a wide variety of topics, from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts to innovation and web strategy, every higher ed marketer can benefit from this conference. As a result, the AACRAO has scheduled meeting dates for the next three years (through 2026).

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New UW deal does not affect already-announced layoffs, potential majors and minors cuts - Megan Carpenter, Spectrum 1 News

Ray Schroeder

The deal calls for a hiring freeze of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) positions through 2026, among other concessions. Republicans will release already-approved money for a 6% raise for 34,000 UW employees and for capital projects, including a new UW-Madison engineering building.

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Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents Double Back to Approve Republican Funding Deal, Agrees to Cut Diversity Efforts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In September, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos demanded that UW cut DEI spending by $32 million, saying that he would not allocate funding for already-approved UW employee pay raises until the school complied. Most UW employees will now see pay raises of 4% in 2023 and 2% in 2024.

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Here’s how to turn fear about Department of Education into opportunity

University Business

The White House’s budget office spread chaos across the country when its attempt to freeze federal grant programs to curtail “DEI, woke gender ideology and the green new deal” implicated other vital financial assistance programs, such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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Universities of Wisconsin Regents Reject Deal to Cut Diversity Efforts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wisconsin Republicans have demonstrated clear opposition against the Universities of Wisconsin’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Vos has called DEI programs a waste of public funding and that promoting diversity widened divisions amongst people. His comments echo increasingly popular anti-DEI sentiments among U.S.

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