University Business

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Why it matters: While students, faculty, administrators and experts all acknowledge DEI programs can be flawed, bans are prompting colleges to close up cultural centers and rewrite course catalogs moves that can interfere with student life and threaten free speech. Read more at Axios.

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Via's

JUNE 15, 2023

Once she realized she could work with college students as a career, she returned to school. Marisa earned a MEd in college student affairs administration at the University of Georgia (UGA) where she interned in the Office of Student Life and the Office of International Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In a campus-wide message, Ohio State President Ted Carter outlined several immediate changes in response to what he described as "federal threats to withdraw funding if DEI programs continued." Officials stated they will work with affected employees to find alternative employment opportunities within the institution where possible.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2025

The program is now at the center of a Trump administration campaign to root out diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education. That followed a warning a month earlier that schools could lose federal money over race-based preferences in admissions, scholarships or any aspect of student life. Read more at AP News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

The letter demanded a comprehensive restructuring of Harvards governance, hiring, admissions, and student life. It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Higher education leaders everywhere are scrambling to understand how recent orders by President Donald Trump’s administration to forego initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion impact their institutions. Here are some institutions that have already taken steps to distance themselves from DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

With this guidance, the Trump Administration is directing schools to end the use of racial preferences and race stereotypes in their programs and activities," said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor, characterizing the move as a victory for justice, civil rights laws, and the Constitution.

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