‘A Drain On Resources’: DeSantis Announces End Of Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Funding For Public Universities
On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced that his state would be ending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) funding for public universities, and increase scrutiny toward underperforming professors. DeSantis said that his state is “going to eliminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida, no funding and that will wither on the vine. And I think that that’s very important because it really serves as an ideological filter, a political filter… We probably are the first state that’s actually leading by example, but I can tell you those bureaucracies are not representative of what the people