https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/03/university-of-florida-fires-all-dei.html
march 2 2024 The University of Florida has fired all of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees and shut down its DEI office.
The firing of DEI employees at the University of Florida comes in response to a regulatory change from the Florida Board of Governors barring the use of state funding for DEI initiatives.
“To comply with the Florida Board of Governor’s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures, the University of Florida has closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors,” reads an email from the university’s Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, which was posted to X by conservative journalist and activist Chris Rufo.
Local reports say that 13 DEI positions were completely eliminated, with another 15 administrative appointments ended for faculty members.
Governor DeSantis celebrated the move, calling DEI “toxic” and saying it “has no place in our public universities.”
The firing of the school’s DEI employees and shutting down of the DEI office comes after the state barred the use of state funding towards any effort that “classifies individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation and promotes differential or preferential treatment of individuals on the basis of such classification.”
