U of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide.

[Swede]

[Passages]

1. omg

I can't even put into words how sad I feel right now.

Seriously, reading this made tears come to my eyes.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

18. As a Michigan grad, I'm ashamed. U of M had always refused to cave

I was always very proud of that. If THEY are giving in, it is bad. It’s time for blue states to secede from this nation. They support all the red states.

[Passages]

20. I am so upset.

I feel as though far too much is slipping away and the urgency for all higher ed to band together is not going to happen.

[Srkdqltr]

2. If they would. But they will be told not to.

[Ocelot II]

3. The University of Minnesota still has a DEI program.

I'm watching and waiting, hoping they don't cave too. https://diversity.umn.edu/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. The U took down a statement the American Indian Department made about Palestine, as well as an article about Leonard

Peltier.

[Ocelot II]

6. So they'll just chip away at it rather than abolish it altogether?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Looks that way.

[uponit7771]

5. Fuck UM, 100% unnecessary

[Elessar Zappa]

7. Why are universities giving in to this bullshit?

Very frustrating.

[Ocelot II]

9. Federal money. Most big universities rely on federal grants

for their scientific research and graduate programs. They've been told that these grants will be withheld if they don't eliminate their DEI initiatives.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. So basically blackmail.

Typical Trumpian tactic.

[Ocelot II]

17. Extortion, more accurately.

[Elessar Zappa]

22. Right.

[Moostache]

10. Athletes do not play for the schools any longer...

They play for whoever signs the biggest "N.I.L." deal and will jump from school to school to maximize their income now. They are not idealists or students, they are sellswords and mercanaries. To believe that any student-athlete white or black or anything else has any pwoer to inflict change on this system is out of touch by a good 5-10 years now.

The football players are getting millions in college and some as young as 16 are getting endorsement deals to continue feeding the wealth accumulation machine and entice people to keep seeking the superfluous and inane and not focus on how badly they are being fucked out of their property, their money, their futures and their very lives.

[Mosby]

13. Kids are entering the transfer portal during the ncaa tourny.

Staggering Number Of Players Have Entered Transfer Portal During NCAA Tournament

https://thespun.com/college-hoops/staggering-number-of-players-have-entered-transfer-portal-during-ncaa-tournament

[Takket]

11. Terrible

Absolutely no reasons for this. SCOTUS already killed affirmative action so it’s no like DEI is creating “quotas” of for minorities and denying whites positions because of it. DEI programs are just celebrations of culture. Lectures. Etc. that’s bad???

[Nanjeanne]

12. Dammit. Universities have to stop bending the knee to this bastard.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. All of Ohio's state run universities and colleges did so under SB1.

[sekha68]

15. Disgusting.

Unfortunately, unsurprising. I'm from Michigan; one more reason to loathe that university.

[Celerity]

19. University of Michigan shutting down diversity, equity, inclusion programs

https://www.michiganpublic.org/community/2025-03-27/university-of-michigan-shutting-down-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-programs

The University of Michigan is closing its office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and shutting down diversity initiatives campuswide, in response to executive orders from the Trump administration and internal discussions on campus. The moves were announced in a campus-wide email from university President Santa Ono and other top leaders Thursday afternoon. The changes will also affect the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion at Michigan Medicine.

In the email, university leaders acknowledged the diversity initiatives had been successful on some measures. “First-generation undergraduate students, for example, have increased 46% and undergraduate Pell recipients have increased by more than 32%, driven in part by impactful programs such as Go Blue Guarantee and Wolverine Pathways,” the email read. “The work to remove barriers to student success is inherently challenging, and our leadership has played a vital role in shaping inclusive excellence throughout higher education.”

The University of Michigan has frequently been at the center of conversations about diversity on college campuses; it was the defendant in two lawsuits that reached the Supreme Court in 2003, resulting in rulings that partially struck down affirmative action programs on campus at the time. Last year, the New York Times reported on UM's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, saying the university had poured more than a quarter of a billion dollars into the programs since 2016, but many critics remained on campus.

In 2023, the university launched what it called its DEI 2.0 strategic plan, which was announced as a five-year plan to run through 2028. On Thursday, the university announced it would abandon the plan, as part of the other cuts to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs on campus. It said it would also update university websites to remove mentions of the DEI efforts. In a post on the social media site "X", university regent Sarah Hubbard said cutting the DEI offices on campus would free up money to spend on other student programs.

Link to tweet

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[Solly Mack]

21. Fools. Cowards.