The layoffs have roiled students and advocates, who argue administrators are overreacting to the law and weakening the schools’ ability to recruit new talent.
The dozens of employees laid off by the University of Texas at Austin this month when it closed a former diversity, equity and inclusion office were mostly women and people of color, some of whom had worked for decades at the school, according to newly released records. In all, the university says it let go 49 staffers as part of a restructuring to comply with a new state law banning DEI.
Austin program cuts come with attempts to regain politicians' trust after DEI law, president says Black staffers were disproportionately affected, making up nearly a third of the cuts while accounting for just 7% of the total university staff, excluding tenured faculty. Roughly three-fourths of the employees let go were women, though they make up just 55% of the total staff.
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