Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦DEI firings at Texas schools send ripples through faculty, students
“Students are starting to text us upperclassmen saying, ‘Hey, I'm kind of scared to go to UT now. It sounds like they don't want people like me there because they don't have programs for me. We have the burden as upperclassmen trying to figure out, 'What do I tell them, the truth?' And tell them that, 'Hey, yeah, this university really doesn't care about us anymore.”
DEI firings at Texas schools send ripples through faculty, students
Texas is among several states that have rolled back diversity, equity and inclusion — or DEI — programs at state colleges and universities. As a result, every Texas public college closed DEI departments in January, and in April, two Texas schools fired more than 80 DEI staff total.