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‘Corrosive To Academic Freedom’: These States Might Get Rid Of Diversity Programs This Year

Legislators introduced bills in January aiming to outlaw diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in…

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Legislators introduced several bills in January aiming to outlaw diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in educational institutions in states across the U.S.

Colleges and universities often use diversity statements, which require professors to say how they will advance DEI in schools, and many schools require mandatory DEI trainings for faculty. Several states have outlawed the use of DEI in public universities, including Texas and Florida, and now several more states have introduced bills to address DEI, including South Carolina, Indiana and Kentucky.

“Campus DEI bureaucracies threaten student and faculty speech rights. Those offices are used to advance a campus orthodoxy and stifle free speech and academic freedom. DEI statements, which are used to weed out dissenting views among students and faculty, function as de facto political litmus tests and are unconstitutional,” Tyler Coward, lead counsel of government affairs for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a free speech legal organization, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

‘Corrosive To Academic Freedom’: These States Might Get Rid Of Diversity Programs This Year

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