In addition to eliminating inclusive restrooms at the Río Piedras campus, the university system voided guarantees of access and nondiscrimination for transgender students and revised its Chosen Name Protocol, because of Trump administration measures targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Posted inPuerto Rico
Trump policies deepen exclusion at the University of Puerto Rico
Federal measures have stalled the limited progress in diversity policies at Puerto Rico’s public university by halting a census of Afro-descendants and eliminating inclusive bathrooms under the threat of funding cuts. More than 25 members of the university community warn that these policies will worsen the marginalization of historically excluded sectors.
Posted inFort Worth
Trump executive orders unsettle future of TCU’s diversity and inclusion initiatives
For years, TCU boasted of its commitment to “diversity, equity and inclusion” on its About page, a central part of the website.
Mentions of the commitment on that prominent page have now disappeared.
Posted inFort Worth
UTA creates task force in response to wide-ranging executive orders from Trump, Abbott
Following a slew of federal and state executive orders affecting higher education, the University of Texas at Arlington has set up a task force to monitor and respond to their impact.
Posted inMississippi
Anti-DEI bill would create taskforce to study ‘efficiency’ in university system
A Senate bill seeking to ban diversity, equity and inclusion offices on Mississippi college campuses would also create a taskforce to study how the state’s higher education system can become more efficient, a discussion some have feared is the opening salvo in an effort to close or merge universities.
Posted inIndianapolis
Indiana struggles to send Black, Hispanic students to college, report shows
Indiana’s making progress toward getting more students into college and job training, but new data shows the state still has significant work to do to help Black and Latino Hoosiers.
Posted inMississippi
The board governing Mississippi’s public universities deletes the word ‘diversity’ from its policies
The governing board of Mississippi’s public universities voted Thursday to delete the word “diversity” from several policies.