Trump wants to change US colleges. GOP-led states like Alabama offer a preview

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Dozens of diversity, equity and inclusion programs have already closed in states across the country.

Nearly a decade ago, intense protests over racial injustice rocked the University of Missouri’s flagship campus, leading to the resignation of two top administrators. The university then hired its first-ever vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity. Tensions were so high that football players were threatening a boycott and a graduate student went on hunger strike.

Many conservatives have taken a similar view. Erec Smith, a research fellow at the free-market Cato Institute whose scholarship examines anti-racist activism and Black conservatism, said DEI sends the message that “whiteness is oppression.” Diversity efforts are “thoroughly robbing Black people and other minorities of a sense of agency,” he said.

Trump’s opponents dismiss his depictions of liberal indoctrination on campuses as a fiction.

“They don’t feel safe just sitting in the student center because of the kind of environment that a lot of students and even teachers create on campus,” Grimes said. Nick Koenig, a University of Idaho doctoral student who teaches in climate change and sociology, poses for a photo on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, on campus in Moscow, Idaho. Koenig moved to Idaho in 2022 and fears that UofI will soon follow the example of other colleges and universities in Idaho and shut down their equity and diversity centers in favor of generically renamed centers designed to cater to all students.

“There hasn’t been much support at the federal level to do anything,” he said. ”Now, of course, that’s going to change.”

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