University of Michigan announces it's shuttering its DEI offices due to Trump's executive orders The University of Michigan announced it will be closing the doors of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office on Thursday. In a message to the university, the president and other top leaders said that due to recent executive orders from President Donald Trump as well as funding uncertainty, they will be doing away with their DEI programming.
As Trump’s deadline to eliminate DEI nears, few schools openly rush to make changes On Thursday, the department launched a new “End DEI” portal inviting students, parents and others to report discrimination based on race or sex in public schools. The department said it will use submissions to identify investigation targets.
University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program Michigan — one of the most prestigious public universities in the country — had for years steadily expanded its D.E.I. efforts even as conservative lawmakers and activists in other states successfully campaigned to defund or ban such programs. But on Thursday, amid intensifying pressure on colleges from the Trump administration, Michigan said it would discontinue its diversity “strategic plan,” known as D.E.I. 2.0, and effectively dismantle the large administrative bureaucracy constructed to drive it through the university’s colleges and professional schools.
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