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Want to know how diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology has begun to take over public higher education in Alabama? Read Scott Yenor’s recent report, “Going Woke in Dixie?: The progress of DEI at the University of Alabama and Auburn University.” He details the effects of the University of Alabama’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) strategic plan, lists the number of well-paid diversity officers, and catalogs how athletics and Greek life have been subordinated to DEI ideology. His description of DEI at Auburn University is just as comprehensive. “Going Woke in Dixie?” provides chapter and verse on just how badly DEI...

Mobile Register Editorials Universities should foster public debate 01/21/04 University of Alabama administrators are being small-minded about faculty dissent on the Tuscaloosa campus. A university's role should be to stimulate discussion, not to suppress it. UA's target is the Alabama Scholars Association, the state chapter of a national conservative faculty organization that challenges colleges and universities on a number of issues, including grade inflation, term limits for administrators and gender and race preferences in faculty hiring. Whether university administrators agree with the Scholars Association or not, they should welcome free discussion on issues that go to the core of a...