Posted on 04/19/2025 6:29:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.”
At Michigan, students have been told the casualties include orientation events for new Latino, Arab and Asian American students, along with the LEAD Scholars program, a financial aid award for Black, Latino and Native American students.
Coming from a low-income part of Detroit, Rosario said winning the scholarship cemented her decision to attend Michigan. She later met some of her best friends at a move-in event for Latino students called Alma. Losing those programs, she fears, could reinforce a sense of isolation among Hispanic students, who make up 6% of the school’s undergraduates.
“It would be hard to find my community if I didn’t have access to these resources,” she said.
Rosario doesn’t entirely blame the university for the cuts. The first in her family to attend college, she fears what it means for the next generation of students.
“They’ve taken away our sense of community,” she said. “It just makes it that much harder for people of color to feel comfortable pursuing higher education.”
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The office of the Dean of Students can certainly set up welcoming meetings for first generation college students and then the Latino students can voluntarily group together and visit. NO DIE office is required!
DEI is racist BS and those who support it are racists.
chipping away at the sense of community that helped open the door to higher education.
“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.”
Gee, maybe they will have to rely on talent now instead of color.
My thoughts exactly.
‘ they will have to rely on talent now instead of color.’
I hope so.
Black privilege is over.
Ass Press
Since the Divine Right of Kings is no longer recognized, I've found it increasingly difficult to exercise my droit du seigneur. I can no longer impregnate village girls willy-nilly.
I am thus being unfairly disadvantaged!
Bring back jus primae noctis!
Regards,
Would rather have things handed to them than actually work for it
I have been teaching at the college level (not counting TA grad work) since 1987. For every one of those 48 years, not once have I ever made a person of any color or sex unwelcome in my class because of their color or sex. The only students who felt unwelcome would be those who are unable to learn what I was teaching them, material which was rarely difficult.
If I were teaching FT now, however, I would almost certainly be put in a star chamber and forced to recant my supremacy, like Cultural Revolution professors wearing dunce caps, just because I am white, male, and Christian. I’m glad I do not have to live my career through this time.
“We can only be Inclusive by excluding people”. It’s how Title IX can be in effect but there are scholarships that exclude men from getting them which is a blatant violation of Title IX.
If you need a “support system” to be in school, you should not be there! Poor pampered babies...
Gosh, how did any non-WASPS survive before DEI came along?
“They’ve taken away our sense of community,”
I hear Mexico has universities.
AP is the gold standard for leftist propaganda
Aw, poor babies.
College is meant to be another step towards preparing you for The Real World.
Colleges that molly-coddle do you no favors.
I’ve been claiming it for decades: AP = America’s Pravda.
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