Last week the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to cut more than $2 million in funding for DEI and to redirect that money toward campus police. Chapel Hill was out in front but their move was taken in advance of an expected vote on DEI by the Board of Governors for the entire University of North Carolina system which includes 17 schools.
Today, the Board of Governors met and voted to repeal the DEI system which was instituted back in 2019. They replaced it with a new system which has a different focus.
The new policy reverses one that was adopted in 2019 that sought to “foster an inclusive environment” and required each school to submit diversity and inclusion reports to the board of trustees every year.
The new policy now requires UNC schools to “ensure equality of all persons & viewpoints,” and promote “nondiscrimination in employment practices.”
One of the BOG…
