University of Florida terminates all DEI employees to comply with state regulation

[A_Woman_from_MI]

Source: ABC WCJB

The University of Florida is firing all employees in positions related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) according to a memo sent on Friday. It follows the passage of a state law in 2023 targeting college funds spent on DEI.

UF officials say they have closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors. Officials say 13 positions were eliminated and 15 administrative appointments were ended for faculty.

Read more: https://www.wcjb.com/2024/03/01/university-florida-terminates-all-dei-employees-accordance-with-state-regulation/

[Cthulu on call]

1. So they were fired based on race

So how much money is Florida going to lose to this one?

[forgotmylogin]

4. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion...

Doesn't that also include people with physical disabilities? The call center I worked at actually hired numerous people who for various reasons were confined to wheelchairs or needed walking devices since they were perfectly capable of working a computer and a telephone and I believe the company received tax breaks for being inclusive and supportive of this.

[Prairie Gates]

5. But also, who would want to take that job anywhere now?

Say even a blue state university is advertising a VP of DEI position. Who's gonna jump on that? Between the Washington Free Beacon trying to jam you up for plagiarism and the prospects of these kinds of closures going nation-wide, who'd wanna leave any other academic admin post for that kind of fire?

And don't think they're not coming for the Title IX offices next.

[qwlauren35]

18. Yes. Women are next.

If we don't fight, if we don't vote, if we don't protest, if we don't sue, if we don't get others involved, it's going to happen.

[The Grand Illuminist]

25. That might not be enough in itself.

It might take unfortunate remedies. IMO.

[underpants]

2. Was just about to post this

Good luck with recruiting UF

[A_Woman_from_MI]

7. They're bound to attract exactly who they're looking for

How much more clearly can they possibly signal who they want to hire, who they don't, what students they prefer to attend and which students should apply elsewhere?

[EndlessWire]

37. Yeah, people are going to keep tabs

on "safe" schools. What a shame. People have come from all over the world to be educated here in the States. A little less shiny now.

[LovelyStuff]

3. So what's next?

So what's next? Are they going to try to re-establish segregation in education? This whole anti-DEI stuff makes me really angry.

[A_Woman_from_MI]

6. I think that is their end goal, yes

and the approach is to make their institutions of (so-called) education as unappealing to non-white, non-christian, non-woke (whatever the hell that means) people as possible. They are doing a good job with that part.

Possible recruiting motto: UF - great school if you don't want to learn anything your parents didn't teach you!

[Chi67]

9. Of course they are

I'm also really disappointed that Universities did not fight this with lawsuits. This is a blatant violation of the first amendment.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

30. That they didn't speaks volumes

[spudspud]

11. Yes. /nt

[Skittles]

24. they're straight white supremacists

Hitler would be proud of them

[jvill]

8. ... and the home of the brave.

N/t

[Harker]

10. So they're aiming for homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion.

Got it.

[IcyPeas]

14. The Florida Department of HIE.

[Harker]

17. The true "Deep State." n/t

[jmowreader]

12. Please understand...

It's going to take, minimum, fifty years to unfuck this country after what Donald Trump and his minions did to it. That's if it's even possible to do so.

[appalachiablue]

13. The sad, harsh truth

[Prairie_Seagull]

15. Best white foot forward.

Their athletic program makes tons of money. Just from a practical perspective. How will that work out if non-white and supportive white folks decline offered scholarships. Rough waters ahead, I would think.

[kimbutgar]

16. Who wants to take bets that Florida collapses when it becomes full of idiots like in the movie idiocacy !

Destroying universities, angering Disney for being inclusive, attacking black/brown/yellow minorities and letting life ending illnesses run rampant like (COVID, Measles, malaria, polio etc) and ignoring global climate change. I bet in 5 years that state will be collapsing with Florida refuges fleeing to other states. Which I wonder, if the red states will take their fellow American refugees and provide these white magas with financial assistance to resettle.

[qwlauren35]

19. Nope

That lack of state income tax will continue to invite white Americans looking for a place to retire.

[kimbutgar]

20. But if illnesses, climate crisis and educated people leaving it while not funding basic services because of of no state

Taxes?

Have you watched the movie Idiocracy? It screams Florida!

[oldsoftie]

28. "White Americans" aren't the only Americans attracted by no income tax.

In the last 14 months I lost my heating & air guy and my Dr, neither white, because of their no income tax rule. I'm in GA, & now the State is proposing cutting OUR income tax rate slowly over 10yrs.to counter FL & TN. No mention of how to REPLACE that revenue but it'll have to be a sales tax. Which I'm fine with.
We (the nation) lose an ungodly amount of revenue with our ridiculous tax system. Its far too easy for people to pay little or no taxes.

[qwlauren35]

33. My brother in law too

And not white. But for him, the heat and the money outweigh the anti-woke, anti-trans, racist bullshit. My sister hates it and only stays for him.

[orangecrush]

38. I get your point, Softie

But if you ever get a chance, you should watch "Idiocracy".

It's hilarious but also right where we're headed.

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[Chi67]

35. Until

They see their homeowners insurance bill.

[Martin68]

21. People - and corporations - should just start leaving Florida and Texas.

[oldsoftie]

29. I saw this in Newsweek; "People desperately trying to leave FL"

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-homeowners-desperately-trying-move-out-1874173

[bahboo]

22. student strike.....shut the fucking place down...

[iluvtennis]

23. Wow, un-fkn-believable.

[sop]

26. UF's Diversity Office keeps close track of student enrollment by race, gender and ethnicity.

The data shows UF isn't a very diverse place. One of the Diversity Office's goals has been to increase the number minority students, and Republicans in Florida apparently don't like that.

https://cdo.ufl.edu/strategic-initiatives/metrics/#:~:text=The%20race%20and%20ethnicity%20of,American%20Indian%20or%20Alaska%20Native.

[GreenWave]

27. I hope that ath-a-letes take note and portal out of there!

[SouthernDem4ever]

31. Is there also a law now that states all professors have to teach in white hoods?

What a stupid state.

[Cthulu on call]

32. This going to the supreme court

Which is the plan to gut more laws. Republicans hate the American with Disabilities act. As do corporations.

Federalist Society is a treasonous organization, terrorist.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

34. Football

Football football. Who wants to play football here?

[ZonkerHarris]

36. Fuck Florida

[FakeNoose]

39. DeSantis will be gone in 2026, one hopes things will start to change after that