The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will voluntarily dissolve its diversity, equity and inclusion office as red states move to purge the programs.
The office dedicated to supporting historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities on campus will close permanently Aug. 1 as part of a new strategic plan, Chancellor Charles Robinson told the campus in a letter last week.
Mr. Robinson insisted that the DEI office is not closing in response to political pressure. According to officials at the public campus, decentralizing DEI resources will bolster diverse student success and faculty recruitment. “Politics are always involved, even if we don’t like to admit it,” Mr. Caldwell told The Times. “I don’t see this as getting rid of DEI in any way, but as expanding it and increasing the access to it. Diversity is now the responsibility of everybody.”
Other academics agreed with Mr. Robinson, the chancellor, that it’s better to distribute multicultural employees throughout institutions rather than segregate them in a separate office. In Iowa, calls to pause or re-evaluable DEI spending have come from the state university system’s governing board. Earlier this year, a proposed ban on affirmative action in state and local agencies failed in the Arkansas House of Representatives after passing the state Senate. Both legislative chambers and the governor’s mansion are under Republican control.
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