UNC board formally votes to repeal DEI policies, funding
(QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus formally voted to repeal policies and funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and will instead redirect funding toward police and campus safety following a Thursday vote.
Two board members voted against the repeal.
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Last week, the Chapel Hill Board of Trustees unanimously approved a change that would divert $2.3 million of diversity spending — known as DEI for diversity, equity, and inclusion — from state funds to go toward public safety and policing at a special meeting to address the university’s budget.
“The DEI efforts seemed counterproductive to that effort to treat people based on who they are as a human, not based on any kind of characteristic they might have,” Board of Trustees budget chair Dave Boliek said last week.
UNC joins the ranks of other notable public universities that have stripped diversity spending, such as the University of Florida in Gainesville, which announced in a March memo it was reallocating funds to faculty recruitment.
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