Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

A rising tide of anti-DEI sentiment is sweeping across the U.S., CDO positions are being eliminated, budgets slashed, and the very purpose of DEI work is being questioned. Fueled by concerns about reverse discrimination, meritocracy, and academic freedom, the anti-DEI movement has gained significant traction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Ahmed, vice provost for DEI at the University of Vermont. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republican legislators have waged anti-DEI movements, claiming myths that DEI efforts are ineffective, violate free speech, and are discriminatory towards white students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, who has led the attack on DEI, applauded the development. "DEI DEI is toxic and has no place in our public universities," he wrote on the X social media site, formerly known as Twitter. I'm glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI and I hope more states follow suit."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We have written essays and posted on social media. And yet, we need to do both. I mean, seriously: how many conferences have you been to with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, and no focus on anti-DEI legislation moving across the country? We know truth is worth pursuit even if it is inaccessible. Let me say this another way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Johnson My alma mater, the University of Florida, recently eliminated its DEI positions and offices. Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. Dr. Susan D. whose horizons are being increasingly limited each day.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Meanwhile, Baruch College will organize focus groups, discussions, enhanced DEI training, and support for the school’s affinity groups. And the CUNY School of Law will have an adviser for faculty and staff on fostering a common understanding of discrimination and how to confront it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 1, 2024

Black Scholars Face Anonymous Accusations in Anti-DEI Crusade Ryan Quinn Mon, 04/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Since right-wing firebrand Christopher Rufo helped bring down Harvard’s president, at least seven more scholars—most of them Black—have confronted accusations of plagiarism or research misconduct spread by conservative media.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

Anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed in states like Texas and Florida is tied to a national trend of trying to make LGBTQ+ people and people of color invisible and more easily discriminated against, says Imani Rupert-Gordon, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In Texas, Senate Bill 17 took effect on Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

media studies and Asian studies, Pomona College; M.A., Find ways to take pleasure in your work now, because this is such a rewarding job.” For as long as she can remember, Dr. Lori Kido Lopez has been passionate about media and Asian American social justice. mass communication, Indiana University; and Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Collectives, as described by an Associated Press article “seek donations from boosters, alumni, and fans and then arrange opportunities for athletes to be paid for endorsements, public appearances, autograph-signing and posting branded content to their personal social media channels.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

She was one of three DEI employees who have resigned from the institution over the past 18 months due to what they described as a lack of institutional support for their work, according to a December article in the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian. ” For Ross, that emotional burden eventually became too heavy to bear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts. Jelinek agreed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

One of López’s examinations centered on media representation of the DREAM Act of 2010. Something I learned is just that media shapes the way that the public thinks about immigrants, undocumented immigrants, immigration policy issues, and perhaps even how they make decisions about whether to support these issues."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In Dr. Angela Ziskowski “All stakeholders have committed to DEI being an area of focus of the plan, as it was in our most recent five-year plan,” adds Hayes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Education Department Cancels Another $350M in Contracts, Grants Ryan Quinn Mon, 02/17/2025 - 03:00 AM The cancellations came after anti-DEI activist Christopher Rufo posted on social media about the programs. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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University Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The spring semester was a time of great adjustment for colleges and universities in Texas as state schools were forced to disband any office related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Lawmakers aren’t the only ones trying to intimidate Texas administration and faculty to cultivate DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? In parallel, schools will have to develop a media strategy. DEI officers, it seems, are in for a long stretch of hard work. Could future applicants be prevented from speaking fully about their racial identities?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2025

Texas A&M Pulls Out of Event Rufo Described as Racial Segregation Ryan Quinn Thu, 01/16/2025 - 03:00 AM The national conservative activist wrote on social media that a student recruiting conference violates the states DEI ban because it excludes whites and Asians. Governor Abbott then threatened to fire the A&M president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

We have to make the connective tissue attractive for these very global, social media children and young people. America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In the fall of 2022, Webster hosted a diversity career fair for which corporations were asked to provide a statement about how DEI shows up in their organizational mission. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Janice Warner GCU’s four academic deans now are: Dr. Mary Chinery, d ean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Jennifer Edmonds, dean of the School of Business & Digital Media; Dr. Teri Wurmser, dean of the Hackensack Meridian Health School of Nursing and Wellness; and Dr. Kelly McNeal, dean of the School of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The data, she adds, is critical to pinpointing areas for improvement, especially when working with states that might be confronting anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) language. Even in states with anti-DEI legislations, the states still want improved outcomes. How can we help you overcome this barrier and reach this goal?”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As implied by the title of the 359-page document—“Advancing Antiracism, Diversity and Equity Inclusion [DEI] in STEMM Organizations: Beyond Broadening Participation”—the National Academies aren’t just focusing on numerically increasing minority representation in STEMM.

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Ridgewater College

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Many of these days will be celebrated on our social media channels, with a special focus on sharing information from trusted sources to help members of the community to better understand one another. The post Jacob Seamans: Launching a Multicultural Recognition Calendar for Social Media appeared first on Ridgewater College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. “There’s no sense in reinventing the wheel,” says Acosta. Dr. David A. Don’t give up the ghost.

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Higher Education Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

At the start of 2024, the media narrative picked up where it left off before the holidays—painting a picture of U.S. college campuses immersed in division and unrest over a number of issues, particularly the response to the war between Israel and Hamas and the heated debate over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

Much of the media was focused on challenges to DEI, the loss of research grants and immigration visits to campuses. It feeds not just federal dashboards but also state accountability systems, media rankings and policy narratives. Quiet unraveling of NCES Few headlines covered the March 2025 layoffs at NCES.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2025

attorney general Pam Bondi directed the American Bar Association, the accrediting body for law schools since 1952, to remove diversity, equity and inclusion requirements for law schools in a letter that was shared on social media.

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ACEI

JULY 27, 2021

Building and maintaining a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in higher education is hard. The problem is compounded when resistance to DEI work is treated by advocates of DEI as a spasm of white fragility that should (even must) be disregarded.

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University Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

Read more from Houston Public Media. The post Houston universities move on from DEI offices as new Texas law takes effect appeared first on University Business.

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ACEI

AUGUST 26, 2021

Building and maintaining a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in higher education is hard. The problem is compounded when resistance to DEI work is treated as a spasm of white fragility that should (even must) be disregarded. The application of mindful practices when it comes to work in DEI is clear.

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ACEI

AUGUST 26, 2021

Building and maintaining a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in higher education is hard. The problem is compounded when resistance to DEI work is treated as a spasm of white fragility that should (even must) be disregarded. The application of mindful practices when it comes to work in DEI is clear.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

“I do want to express concern over the hateful and threatening messages [Steinbach] has received as a result of viral online and media attention and reiterate that actionable threats that come to our attention will be investigated and addressed as the law permits. Martinez wrote Wednesday in a statement addressing the controversy.

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College for Creative Study

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2022, April 22) Cleveland Clinic , [link] The post DEI Blog – The Pervasiveness of Sizeism appeared first on College for Creative Studies. link] Rebecca Puhl et al. 2021), “International Comparisons of Weight Stigma: Addressing a Void in the Field,” cited in Samantha Lawrence, et al.

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EAB

MARCH 10, 2023

From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across five major areas: enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data analytics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Learn more at eab.com.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

AUGUST 23, 2023

This month the SAAL Board will be hosting a meeting with the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) and colleagues in DEI oppressive states to plan a future Structured Conversation to help our members who are challenged with Section 5. Communications Specialist Manage SAAL communication accounts (e.g., Campus Labs, EBI).

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