Even Joel was going to go there.
Posted on 05/23/2025 9:29:53 AM PDT by DallasBiff
WASHINGTON (AP) — Campus mentors. Move-in events. Scholarships. Diversity offices that made them feel welcome on predominantly white campuses.
As U.S. colleges pull back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose all of these things and more.
The full scope of campus DEI rollbacks is still emerging as colleges respond to the Trump administration’s orders against diversity practices. But students at some schools said early cuts are chipping away at the sense of community that helped open the door to higher education.
“It feels like we’re going back. I don’t know how else to describe it,” said Breeana-Iris Rosario, a junior at the University of Michigan, which is closing its DEI office and scrapping a campus-wide inclusion plan. “It’s like our voices aren’t being heard.”
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Yes, it’s called the US Cobstitution and the Bill of Rights. Anything else is just foo-foo nonsense.
Sorry for not spellchecking, but you get the Constimitution reference anyhow.
“DEI rolled back, people of color hardest hit”
Michelle Obama didn’t feel “welcome” at Princeton either - probably because her SAT score would not have even gotten her into U. Of Illinois were she White.
Question, couldn’t the students form their own support groups which focused on difficulties all students might face adjusting to college? If they wanted one to be exclusive then they could organize a private group off campus and supported by private funding. Also a private organization could set up such support.
The point is support offered by the college must no longer exclude students on the basis of race. Especially since such services are often funded by student fees.
‘Special’ treatment is NOT equal treatment!
yes, you are going back... back to a time when everyone was treated equally instead of being segregated by race because of DEI
“It’s like our voices aren’t being heard.”
Well Dearie, You are probably in a lecture hall with 100 or more fellow students. The poor TA can hardly be expected to hear you from that very back level. Speak up!
P.S. It’s not that you are not being heard. It’s just that you want shut up; so you get tuned out.
Having read part of Michelle Obama’s senior paper I don’t think she would have been admitted to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. I don’t know much about their Chicago campus but the main campus is a competitive school.
Even Joel was going to go there.
DEI rollbacks hit support systems for marxists.
DEI = reparations
They don’t need that kind of support.
in the 80s as a student at KU i asked a professor for information as I had a work-related class attendance problem he told me that it was my problem to keep up.
“They’re now just ordinary students.”
““It feels like we’re going back. I don’t know how else to describe it,” said Breeana-Iris Rosario, a junior at the University of Michigan, which is closing its DEI office and scrapping a campus-wide inclusion plan. “It’s like our voices aren’t being heard.”
Problem is that they didn’t have to say anything before. You’ll notice the article didn’t identify anything that was detrimental to their education. Now, just like any student, people who used the DEI programs are now going to have to compete with other students without an assistance or a net. They specifically mentioned black students in the article. When you consider that only 14% of the population in the US is black. When are the other 86%, the majority, going to have special programs designed just for them? Oh, I guess they already do. It falls under federal law based upon the Constitution. And then what do we have after graduation? Forced minority hiring.
wy69
Yep. It’s time to move off the plantation and become your own massa.
I am a white man originally from Arizona, and I went to MIT as an undergraduate as the first in my family to attend college. Back then, there were no special programs for “first in family”.
Yes, I struggled a bit the first semester of my freshman year. But after that, I did well enough to earn an NSF Graduate Fellowship!
Are DEI programs necessary at universities? I don’t know.
Sure, use DEI to coddle minority students so that they graduate with degrees that represent academic achievement. Make them into DEI adults without the intellectual and social skills and personal character to perform well and earn the respect of others — including white people. That is a recipe for failure in life and chronic resentment by minorities.
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