The University of Florida took some of the most drastic actions against diversity, equity, and inclusion in the state Friday by eliminating more than a dozen full-time campus positions including the “chief diversity officer.”
UF, Florida’s flagship school, closed the Chief Diversity Officer’s office, scrapped other jobs and “halted DEI-focused” vendor contracts in a wave of decisions under President Ben Sasse. The moves are a response to higher education reforms backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republicans in the state who are targeting “wokeness” and liberal “indoctrination” in Florida’s university system.
“DEI is toxic and has no place in our public universities,” DeSantis said Friday on X. “I’m glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI and I hope more states follow suit.”
This is fucking terrible but I bet this gets rolled back when the three big Florida football Universities(UF FSU, and Miami) report they can’t compete because they can only recruit conservative players. It’s fucked up but passion for college football in the south has been used to help drive social change forward in the past. Bear Bryant invited a longtime and dominant integrated USC team to play Bama in Birmingham where the Trojans whipped that ass.
Some rich booster with connections in the government of Florida will get pissed off that the Gators can’t compete and get this removed, it’s sadly gonna take so long it probably won’t be fixable for even longer