As a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, Sam Jefferson worked in the school’s diversity office. Jefferson said he learned firsthand just how essential the…
Read more Students and Faculty Fear Tenure and DEI Bills Could ‘Destroy’ Texas CollegesWhen Texas lawmakers scheduled a hearing this week about two bills that could alter tenure and eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, the higher-ed community had a lot…
Read more Tenure and DEI Changes Loom Large in Texas. Here Are 3 Takeaways From a Marathon Hearing.Each spring, Missouri’s legislature goes through the familiar ritual of passing a new state budget. This year, Republican lawmakers have mostly wrangled over just one thing related to…
Read more College DEI Bans Are Showing Up in Republicans’ State Budgets. Not Everyone Is on Board.A bill banning mandatory diversity training at public institutions of higher education in North Dakota was signed into law on Monday. Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, signed Senate…
Read more North Dakota Just Enacted a ‘Specified Concepts’ Bill. Here’s What It Says.Florida and Texas have drawn much of the national attention over lawmakers’ efforts to reform higher ed this year. But Ohio’s legislature hosted a dramatic, seven-hour committee hearing…
Read more Hundreds of Students, Faculty, and Administrators Speak Out Against Ohio’s Proposal to Reform Public CollegesAt the annual conference of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education in Baltimore last week, faculty members, staff, and administrators gathered to learn from one…
Read more Who Leads America’s DEI Offices? Here Are Their Stories.Florida’s state senators edited out some of the most contentious provisions of a much-discussed higher-education bill advancing through the legislature on Wednesday. Lawmakers scrapped all references to “diversity,…
Read more ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Is Stripped Out of Florida’s Higher-Ed Reform Bill
