What? The University of North Carolina is banning DEI? The UNC Board of Governors made a gutsy decision. Don't expect the wokester faculty members to be happy about it

American Thinker ^ | 02/28/2023 | R.W. Trewyn

[SeekAndFind]

Since the birth of affirmative action in the 1960s, universities have been the leading advocates and sacred sanctuary for the principles put forth.

Diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, is what affirmative action has devolved into today -- a totally biased, discriminatory practice now utilized throughout most employment sectors in America.

During hiring, promotion processes, and the like, equal opportunity that affirmative action touted has degenerated into DEI’s equal outcomes. The former expected job qualifications to be met; the latter does not.

Amazingly, the University of North Carolina (UNC) has just taken steps to eliminate DEI from campus mandates. Here's a February 23 Fox News lede:

UNC voted to ban DEI statements and compelled speech from admission, hiring, promotion and tenure at its Board of Governors meeting on Thursday. 

While common-sense backlash to DEI has been building over the past couple years, a university is the last place most would have expected intelligence on this matter to reign.

Congratulations to the UNC Board of Governors!

Of course, Board of Governors would explain the intelligence: it wasn’t college professors or administrators taking the lead. It was more likely the students, the alumni, and the big benefactors.

And, who knows, it may have been something I wrote here.

Having spent 44-years as a university faculty member, with 28-years in central administration, I feel confident making that assessment. 

In today’s academy, neither faculty nor administrators would have the backbone to step in front of the national firing squad that’s going to assault UNC as a result of the Board’s action. 

But it happened. And there could be major eruptions against it on the UNC campus as well.  The self-proclaimed intellectual elite know how to throw a tantrum.

[bantam]

And my kid decided NOT to apply there< doh!!

[Skwor]

Praise our Lord!

[FiddlePig]

DEI needs to DIE!!!

[Nashcash]

Lets all thank Trump for taking on aa in admissions process. Beginning to payoff

[flamberge]

You keep finding the most interesting articles.

Thank you.

[Boogieman]

Too late for Mike Adams.

[dfwgator]

It’s funny, and I know we don’t like him here, but I think Ben Sasse going to UF is actually a catalyst for this.

Sasse may not have been the right man in DC, but having more conservatives running the big public universities is a good thing IMHO.

[VinnieCCT]

From the Collectivist's Dictionary:

Eq-ui-ty (ek' wi tē) n. The condition resulting after taking what was earned by someone and giving it to someone who does not deserve it.

[Clutch Martin]

I kind of read up on some classmates that I had down in North Carolina many moons ago. They turned into rabid liberal sour pusses. UNC marxist carpetbaggers helped.

[scrabblehack]

Does this affect all UNC campuses or just Chapel Hill?
(Adams was at UNC-Wilmington, as I recall)

[Zack Attack]

Wow, and UNC-Chapel Hill is commonly referred to here as Berkeleys East campus. LOL

[Boogieman]

I assume so, since the UNC board of governors oversees all those campuses.