Republicans spar with UW leaders over DEI spending

How the Biden admin injected DEI into every facet of spending

Hours after his 2021 inauguration, President Joe Biden signed his executive order on “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” Until the ascent of the second Trump administration, federal bureaucrats used this order to force grant applicants to pledge support for diversity, equity, and inclusion practices — even for projects otherwise devoid of ideological trappings. The Washington Examiner…

Republicans spar with UW leaders over DEI spending

The head of the Department of Administration and leaders of the Universities of Wisconsin system defended their use of diversity, equity and inclusion measures to ensure Wisconsin is a quality employer and educator of college students during a hearing Wednesday.

Universities Can Appease the Right — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

Universities are currently experiencing a full-blown assault from the federal government and from red-state politicians. Tired of subsidizing universities as a hotbed of ideological activism, Republican leaders are cutting budgets, forcing reorganizations, asserting control of university governance, and taking control of the general-education curriculum at state universities. Republicans have generally been more skeptical of generous funding of …