Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law on Tuesday that will ban public colleges from funding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, continuing a nationwide push by conservatives to remove such programs from higher education. The…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce took aim at colleges’ diversity, equity and inclusion practices during a two-hour hearing Thursday. Republicans focused much of their attention on diversity in medical education,…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nebraska lawmakers Tuesday are set to debate proposals that could eliminate tenure and dramatically diminish campuses’ diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Under one bill, public colleges would be barred from creating DEI offices or requiring…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Utah House lawmakers Friday approved final changes to a sweeping bill that would effectively eliminate public colleges’ diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, one of the last key steps before it heads to Gov. Spencer Cox’s…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A new Kentucky bill would largely ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the state’s public colleges and prohibit race-based scholarships. The proposal follows similar moves in other conservative states. If passed, colleges could not…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief:Â Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas, introduced a legislative proposal this week that would strip colleges of federal funding if they require employees, students or applicants to write diversity, equity and inclusion statements. Colleges…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The University of Oklahoma is getting pushback from civil rights groups over its interpretation of a recent executive order affecting the state’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Last week, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered public colleges to…