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University of North Texas Announces Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office is ‘Dissolved’
The Texan (University of North Texas) ^ | 08/04/2023 | CAMERON ABRAMS

Posted on 08/04/2023 8:19:14 AM PDT by DFG

In the wake of the Texas Legislature passing a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and pressure from elected state officials, many universities have had to grapple with shuttering the doors of their social justice-focused departments. One university in Denton has already announced its plans to “dissolve” and reorganize a multitude of departments.

The University of North Texas (UNT), located in Denton, serves a population of over 42,000 students.

Recently, UNT President Neal Smatresk announced the school’s response to Senate Bill (SB) 17 to the public.

The posted statement includes the plans for the Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access to retire from their position; the office be “dissolved” as well as other “units” within that office to be “transferred” to other departments.

“Senior administrators and I are doing our best to create a plan that ensures we will continue to support all our community members’ needs and take advantage of the talented staff members currently within the division by working to reassign them throughout the university in ways that improve our academic community,” Smatresk wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetexan.news ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: dei; denton; education; texas; unt

1 posted on 08/04/2023 8:19:14 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

They will simply fold the woke operation into other departments and call it something else.


2 posted on 08/04/2023 8:23:42 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Yep. That is simply what the woke do.


3 posted on 08/04/2023 8:26:23 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: DFG

“talented staff members currently within the division”

They are “talented” in anti-white racism and leftist propaganda.

They should be fired immediately.


4 posted on 08/04/2023 8:29:28 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: DFG

DEI is outright racism against white people.


5 posted on 08/04/2023 8:29:51 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: DFG

No way this means anything. University departments are massively infected by leftist faculty totally immune to either popular sentiment or rational thought, so the policies and policing of un-woke thought and the pursuit of the DEI agenda will continue unabated.


6 posted on 08/04/2023 8:31:41 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: DFG

BTTT


7 posted on 08/04/2023 8:43:03 AM PDT by nopardons ( )
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To: Seruzawa

It’s definitely a step in the right direction.


8 posted on 08/04/2023 8:57:35 AM PDT by Languager
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To: DFG
One of the better music schools in the country. I decided on Northern Colorado, not North Texas.

If any of y'all remember Laina, the "Overly Attached Girlfriend", she went to North Texas.

UNT also has an embarrassing coffee mug meme.

9 posted on 08/04/2023 9:01:40 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: DFG

How about you just treat everyone the same.

Is that too much to ask?

L


10 posted on 08/04/2023 9:05:51 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DFG

How about dissolving the offices of the folks that thought this was a good idea in the first place?


11 posted on 08/04/2023 9:08:42 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: DFG

DIE lived a short life. But the people who are pressing collectivism are alive and well.


12 posted on 08/04/2023 9:15:09 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Seruzawa

Pyscology.


13 posted on 08/04/2023 9:17:49 AM PDT by pas
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To: real saxophonist

My undergraduate degree came from UNT


14 posted on 08/04/2023 9:23:27 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Lurker

Ironically, the original name of the school was the Texas Normal College.


15 posted on 08/04/2023 9:47:11 AM PDT by bgill
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To: DFG

DIE DEI.


16 posted on 08/04/2023 10:03:00 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Seruzawa

Hook’em!


17 posted on 08/04/2023 10:14:42 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: DFG

Well that was all a woke stupid waste of time and money wasn’t it?!


18 posted on 08/04/2023 10:16:42 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DFG

Keeping the same people on staff and letting them continue on committees that oversee hiring, student affairs, student and faculty discipline, etc.; means retaining the same poisoned ideology.


19 posted on 08/04/2023 10:53:10 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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