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When DEI is gone: A look at the fallout at one Texas university
ABC News ^ | October 13, 2024 | Kiara Alfonseca

Posted on 10/13/2024 1:54:18 PM PDT by fwdude

Universities across the country have transformed at the command of anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) legislation. At the University of Texas-Austin, the legislation led to resource cancellations, office closures, and staff firings -- pushing some students to create alternatives to their school’s defunct diversity programs.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB 17 into law in 2023, barring public institutions of higher education from having diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, as well as programs, activities, and training conducted by those offices. The law also restricts training or hiring policies based on race, gender identity or sexual orientation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: corruption; dei; education; texas
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Maybe they can go to college like everyone else now: on their own merit, talent and hard work.
1 posted on 10/13/2024 1:54:18 PM PDT by fwdude
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...pushing some students to create alternatives to their school’s defunct diversity programs.


Yeah. Otherwise called Communist Party meetings.


2 posted on 10/13/2024 1:58:20 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: fwdude

I will never forget taking the undergraduate Logic Course. To coin a phrase, it was not just logical, it was, yes, fascinating.

Later on the Leftist Creepozoids invented “Logic In Gender Studies” “Logic In Hispanic Studies” Logic in (FILL-IN-THE-BLANK) Studies.

It would not surprise anyone if some of them now have “Logic In Islamofascistnazi Studies”

None of it is logical or fascinating.


3 posted on 10/13/2024 2:09:30 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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ABC is Disney


4 posted on 10/13/2024 2:12:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: fwdude

UT Austin is one of the most liberal centric schools in the USA. Only one way to fix it, eliminate all the liberal arts people there. ALL of them! Just keep the science departments.


5 posted on 10/13/2024 2:13:36 PM PDT by rellic (no such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: fwdude

ABC is so lame. “ONE” Texas university? Texas is THE University. “The 40-acres” does not require “. . . at Austin” for everyone to know of which university you are speaking.


6 posted on 10/13/2024 2:13:56 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Gene Eric

It will be good when athletic scholarships are not the only things in college based on merit.


7 posted on 10/13/2024 2:15:04 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: rellic

fwdude, unfortunately, you are so right. It’s become “Madison on the Colorado.” Or alternatively, U.C.A. - University of California - Austin campus.


8 posted on 10/13/2024 2:18:08 PM PDT by oldplayer
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“I was getting ready to prepare for the next year. My office was just painted. I had just gotten that Exemplary Service Award, and then – boom! – we were all terminated,” Moreno said.


there was no warning? They didn’t heed the warning.

BOOM BOOM


9 posted on 10/13/2024 2:19:00 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: fwdude

https://www.kut.org/education/2024-04-02/ut-austin-dei-diversity-law-sb-17

Texas’ Senate Committee on Education will conduct a hearing next month to monitor state universities’ progress on implementing SB 17. University chancellors are asked to give updates on how they’re eliminating DEI initiatives.

60 useless staff lost jobs, a start.


10 posted on 10/13/2024 2:23:47 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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ABC is so lame. “ONE” Texas university? Texas is THE University. “The 40-acres” does not require “. . . at Austin” for everyone to know of which university you are speaking.

It's not at all clear what you are trying to say. Are you confusing UT Austin with THE University of Ohio?

Texas does have a pretty good football program since they got rid of and recovered from their former athletic director who should have retired about a decade before he did.

11 posted on 10/13/2024 2:26:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: fwdude

https://www.kut.org/education/2024-04-02/ut-austin-dei-diversity-law-sb-17

“A lot of these staff that are being laid off are people who might write [students’] job recommendations, who have been supporting them all the way through job applications and graduate applications and life changes,” they said. “I think a lot of students are feeling like they’re losing a lot of support and community spaces.”

It is a network based on isms.


12 posted on 10/13/2024 2:27:24 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Long arm of diversity trend-——

In the long end credits of the Kill Room (2023 movie with Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman) it lists the Diversity Plan for Recruitment and Hiring of Minority Persons and Women in All Areas of Production. New Jersey one. As they do certifying there was no cruelty to animals, it was a union production staff with label shown and so on.

Turns out film companies get a 2% tax credit bonus for having the DEI czars check over everything.

Like the early days of civil rights and women quotas where they said “oh, we don’t have quotas” but they had legal staff watching on the sidelines to sue with the Fed. Gov’t.’s unlimited deep pockets if you didn’t comply.


13 posted on 10/13/2024 2:32:52 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: PeterPrinciple

“I was getting ready to prepare”?

Ha, ha. Sure you were.


14 posted on 10/13/2024 2:50:16 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: fwdude
Impact of the missing DEI??

Students having to learn and not DEI bully out undeserved grades? Stuff like that?

15 posted on 10/13/2024 2:52:22 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: frank ballenger; PAR35

Sports programs? The athletic programs were systematically dismantled by the first female President of the University, Loraine Rogers. She hated Darrel Royal, Abe Lemons, and Cliff Gustafson (football, basketball, and baseball legendary coaches). She exiled them from the programs and the alumni.
The predictable results were exactly what she and the pinheads in the academic senate wanted.


16 posted on 10/13/2024 2:53:11 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: fwdude

Diversity as practised by its adherents ends up being racist. The alphabet media is afraid that the public may find out that many of their current employees got the job because of positive rascism...and not ability


17 posted on 10/13/2024 2:54:30 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Who knew that an elected official is a demi-god waiting to happen?)
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Diversity as practised by its adherents ends up being racist. The alphabet media is afraid that the public may find out that many of their current employees got the job because of positive rascism...and not ability


18 posted on 10/13/2024 2:56:08 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Who knew that an elected official is a demi-god waiting to happen?)
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To: oldplayer

The Longhorns beat OU 34 - 3 yesterday. Did they not get the memo from the university Prez? Somebodies playing in UT Longhorn uniforms!


19 posted on 10/13/2024 2:58:32 PM PDT by Reily (N)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

College courses that end in the word “studies” are quite suspect as to their content. Logic has been worth learning forever. These other spin offs, not so much.


20 posted on 10/13/2024 3:04:48 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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