Most major institutions are working to comply with the Executive Order banning DEI racial preferences in hiring and other aspects of their organizations. DEI has been banned both federally–in institutions that get federal funding, that is–and by a number of states such as North Carolina.
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (a truly beautiful campus in a wonderful, but hideously liberal town) has been working on eliminating DEI requirements for about a year, even before Trump came into office.
Imagine a DEI radical who rejects the “fallacy of equality” and the “fallacy of meritocracy.” Now put that person in charge of faculty hiring at UNC-Chapel Hill.
I thought UNC was overcoming its DEI problem. Not here. https://t.co/qYkkJi4o4u
— Adam Kissel (@kissel_adam) March 14, 2025
But, as with most of these efforts, the institutions have been…