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UT System board Chair Kevin Eltife said that while the system strives to promote diversity among its students and faculty, “certain DEI efforts have strayed from the original intent to now imposing requirements and actions that, rightfully so, has raised the concerns of our policymakers around those efforts on campuses across our entire state.”, did not specify which DEI efforts he considered to cross a line. The UT System did not immediately respond to further questions.
“There was not a university-wide requirement for applicants to submit a diversity statement, however, some units did require such statements. There was not consistency in the approach or common understanding of how diversity statements were used in the decision-making process,” said Susan Ballabina, Texas A&M’s chief external affairs officer and senior vice president for academic and strategic collaborations, in a statement Tuesday.
They created offices and hired staff to lead those efforts and make sure their campuses were places where historically underrepresented groups could be successful and graduate.
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By diversity you mean black people, like everything else right
About damn time. I said what I said.
POTUS Biden ain’t gonna be happy when he hears about this
We should base things on merit.
White supremacy gotta go. No mor that Cracka lackin
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