Posted on 04/04/2024 1:26:50 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The University of Texas at Austin has sent layoff notices to an estimated 60 staff members who previously worked in diversity, equity and inclusion roles, according to the Texas NAACP and the Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors.
The staffing cuts come as the university works to comply with the state’s anti-DEI law, or SB17, that bans public colleges and universities from maintaining DEI offices, holding mandatory DEI training, and having departments focused on “promoting differential treatment” based on race, sex or ethnicity.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Texas NAACP and AAUP said impacted staff members were given a 90-day layoff notice. Forty of those employees were from the Division of Campus and Community Engagement, which will be closing, the statement said. The office was formerly called the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement before SB17 went into effect in January.
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One student said Tuesday she was saddened by the news of staff jobs being cut. Aaliyah Barlow, president of the university’s Black Student Alliance, said she feels discouraged by the disinvestment in DEI-related jobs and programs.
“Me personally, I cried,” Barlow said. “The fact that I am going to come back here next year and all the staff members I know and all the programs I value are just going to be gone, it’s very disheartening. I feel like my college experience is ruined.”
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How did the rep from the White Student Alliance take it?
“all the programs I value are just going to be gone, it’s very disheartening. I feel like my college experience is ruined”
Well, maybe you didn’t need to be in college then, dear...
Local radio “does not represent the views of this station or sponsors” guy said last year the one safe job in the US was a college “diversity officer.” If anyone complained call them a racist, homophobe, xenophobe or sexist and ask for another raise. Then ask for more staff or you’ll go to the media about it.
Looks like Texas is not staying in that scam.
Amen. Good for them
HALLELEUJAH!
MAY THIS ACTION SPREAD ACROSS USA!
(Sixty staffers being paid to implement and promote racism on campus.....paid by the taxpayers of all races and ethnicities....
that shows us just how deeply, how far this evil infection has infiltrated into our colleges!)
Biden will be sending his new DEI czar to Texas soon, accompanied by the DOJ/FBI to arrest the governor and all government officials who approved the anti-DEI rules.
Texas should move to remove nearly all public university courses that were not studied 70 years ago and focus mainly on STEM degrees. That would certainly handicap the communists recruitment efforts. Imagine the glorious wailing of the out of work Bolsheviks and perverts.
Okay.
DIE DEI, DIE!
Aaliyah Barlow, president of the university’s Black Student Alliance,
said she feels discouraged. “I feel like my college experience is ruined.”
Well, why dont you just shoulder on, sweetheart. Maybe
you could find an elementary school with open admissions?
Didn’t Earn It ... now not gettin’ it.
How did DEI get so entrenched so fast?
Find yourself a nice fourth-rate "historically black college and university", sweetie, and transfer to it. You'll fit right in!
They had 60 of these a-holes doing this BS.
All of the "equal opportunity" and "minority set-aside" garbage implemented for the grossly misnamed "civil rights movement" set the table for it. Didn't Earn It is the logical conclusion of the so-called "civil rights movement".
Wow! 60 “didn’t earn its” canned!
As a former UTA student, and Total Longhorn Fan, I applaud Abbott and our legislature for slapping UT Administrators again.
Like a misbehaving child..................!
She should’ve majored in Chemistry.
Universities appear to be employers of last resort now for the unemployable.
Used to be municipal government or charity agencies. Now they just stay right where they went when they graduated high school...the Social Sciences department of some state university or of course the administration.
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