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However, system leaders are in the process of requesting a partial reimbursement to the tune of $15 million from the Wisconsin State Assembly’s Joint Finance Committee to fund non-DEI, workforce development-related positions, which state lawmakers left open as an option to recoup some of the cuts.
Image: Even as conservative lawmakers have ratcheted up attacks on DEI—diversity, equity and inclusion—in higher education, another acronym has begun to attract their attention: ESG. DeSantis announced legislation in February that he claims will “protect Floridians from the woke ESG financial scam.”
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The prompt I cobbled together a DEI guidelines document from some existing ones I found on the web to create something focused on curricular materials generation. I will incorporate the DEI guidelines into this rubric to ensure the content is sensitive to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Overlooks DEI considerations.
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During my listening tour, one senior finance leader shared that they have invested in several leadership interventions to help former faculty, now administrators build their strategic thinking muscles. Our point of view at EAB is that DEI is both mission and margin critical. Right now is not the time to take your foot off the gas.
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Accreditors and DEI At UC-Berkeley, 2.4 To be sure, as Robert Kelchen, an expert on higher ed finance and head of the University of Tennessee’s Education Leadership and Policy Studies department, notes : “undergraduate education is only a part of what” even public flagships do. We can’t let this stand.
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For example, programs related to advancing racial equity and support, such as institution’s DEI initiatives, will not be eligible for federal funding, according to the bill. Republicans are in the midst of a full-scale attempt to eliminate public education,” Rep.
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