The state House passed the bill 81-39, just one week after the Kansas Senate passed a $25 billion budget that includes a provision requiring state universities to eliminate their DEI training mandates and programs.
“As DEI has expanded, it has created tension,” Republican state Rep. Steven Howe, author of the House bill, said,. “Instead of a merit-based approach, universities have chosen to embrace ideologies which discriminate against people that do not hew to their orthodoxy.
Critics of the bill have said it does not define the parameters of DEI and is an affront to academic freedom and freedom of speech.
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