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University of Texas at Austin eliminating nearly 60 staff who once worked in DEI roles, civil rights and faculty groups say
Yahoo/CNN ^ | 04/04/2024 | Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN

Posted on 04/04/2024 1:26:50 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

The University of Texas at Austin has sent layoff notices to an estimated 60 staff members who previously worked in diversity, equity and inclusion roles, according to the Texas NAACP and the Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors.

The staffing cuts come as the university works to comply with the state’s anti-DEI law, or SB17, that bans public colleges and universities from maintaining DEI offices, holding mandatory DEI training, and having departments focused on “promoting differential treatment” based on race, sex or ethnicity.

In a statement released Wednesday, the Texas NAACP and AAUP said impacted staff members were given a 90-day layoff notice. Forty of those employees were from the Division of Campus and Community Engagement, which will be closing, the statement said. The office was formerly called the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement before SB17 went into effect in January.

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One student said Tuesday she was saddened by the news of staff jobs being cut. Aaliyah Barlow, president of the university’s Black Student Alliance, said she feels discouraged by the disinvestment in DEI-related jobs and programs.

“Me personally, I cried,” Barlow said. “The fact that I am going to come back here next year and all the staff members I know and all the programs I value are just going to be gone, it’s very disheartening. I feel like my college experience is ruined.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; die; education; texas
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well! I never!


21 posted on 04/04/2024 2:12:46 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wonderful news.

Where’s the flashing schadenfreude sign?


22 posted on 04/04/2024 2:18:19 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The fact that one university had 60 of these frauds employed, shows how far the rot has advanced. 60? smh!


23 posted on 04/04/2024 2:45:20 PM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
I think someone already said that.


24 posted on 04/04/2024 2:55:32 PM PDT by beekay (Missing Trump yet? )
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To: Responsibility2nd

“ I feel like my college experience is ruined.”

So go somewhere else.

Frigging pansy assed little snowflake.

L


25 posted on 04/04/2024 2:57:19 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“The University of Texas at Austin has sent layoff notices to an estimated 60 staff members who previously worked in diversity, equity and inclusion roles”

I’m willing to wager money that at least 40 of them find other jobs, or even find jobs with different names, but the same function.

So don’t celebrate yet - celebrate when the Administration there starts getting thrown in jail for violating State Law.


26 posted on 04/04/2024 3:27:36 PM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEA (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: Responsibility2nd

I need to move to Texas, (or Florida)!!!!!


27 posted on 04/04/2024 3:51:41 PM PDT by bantam
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To: NorthMountain
"Didn’t Earn It"

Divide-Enslave-Indoctrinate
28 posted on 04/04/2024 3:52:15 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If only TX could cut out that blue blight that is Austin.


29 posted on 04/04/2024 4:13:33 PM PDT by bgill
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To: wildcard_redneck

Twenty years ago, UT allowed Muslims to set up stands along Speedway to holler and get in passerby’s faces.

About 15 years ago, the UT president whined that forcing them to admit the Top 10% of TX high school graduates would end Longhorn Football.

Ten years ago, they had 2nd Amendment protests with sweet little southern gals waving giant dildos yelling, “Cocks, not Glocks.”

UT has always been far lefty.


30 posted on 04/04/2024 4:23:57 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Responsibility2nd

31 posted on 04/04/2024 5:14:02 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Jeez, it’s amazing how much parasitic deadwood there is in these institutions.


32 posted on 04/04/2024 5:16:32 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: faithhopecharity

YES!!!


33 posted on 04/04/2024 5:19:16 PM PDT by Osage Orange (ooooOO)
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To: NorthMountain

Don’t you have to be black for this to work?

Rachel tried to get away with it...


34 posted on 04/05/2024 5:07:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DoodleBob

DEI ping


35 posted on 04/05/2024 12:41:55 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Regulator
"Employer of the Unemployable?"

Don't give UT bureaucrats any ideas. They would probably welcome any excuse to change the school's motto: Disciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis.

36 posted on 04/05/2024 12:56:20 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

In the interest of full disclosure Aaliyah Barlow, president of the university’s Black Student Alliance, should have noted that all students fees make the Black Student Alliance free for those members. Makes you wonder if she’s on a free ride also.


37 posted on 04/05/2024 1:07:26 PM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s a start.


38 posted on 04/09/2024 5:24:09 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Texas yes. Austin, hmmm.


39 posted on 04/09/2024 5:34:14 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
A not so fast update...

Colleges Get Around State Bans of DEI With Rebranding. For example, University of Texas Division of Diversity & Community Engagement renamed the Division of Campus & Community Engagement.

40 posted on 04/15/2024 4:17:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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