DEI = Racism

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Ex-DEI University Staffer Wins $265K Settlement After Alleged Hostility Over Her Being White​

A former DEI staffer at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire will receive a $265,000 settlement after she sued the school, alleging discrimination for being white.

Rochelle Hoffman, a former employee at UW-Eau Claire, brought the case in 2023 after she was promoted to interim director of the campus’s Multicultural Student Services office.

The school’s former vice chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Student Affairs, Olga Diaz, was allegedly told by students that a white woman was not fit to preside over a position intended to serve students of color.

“You hired a white woman as the interim director?” one student allegedly said, according to a federal complaint against the university.

According to the complaint, a different student asked, “Do you personally feel white staff can do as effective a job as a person of color, within a space for people of color?”

Hoffman said she felt she had to resign after eight months of intense hostility and staff questioning her “legitimacy” after being promoted to interim director of the campus’s Multicultural Student Services office, the complaint states.

Ex-DEI university staffer wins $265K settlement after alleged hostility over her being white

Ex-University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire DEI staffer, Rochelle Hoffman, has received a $265,000 settlement after suing the school for alleged discrimination for being white.

nypost.com

 

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Slashes $122M Across Nearly 200 DEI, LGBT-Focused Research Projects​

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services has stopped nearly $122 million in grants to research deemed a poor use of taxpayer funds due to focus on LGBT topics and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), The Post has learned.

The grants, funding 195 different projects, were determined by the Trump administration to focus too narrowly on sexual or racial minority groups — drawing outrage from some holdover officials from the Biden administration and contributing to at least one high-profile resignation this week.


Among the biggest grants to be axed was $5.5 million from the National Cancer Institute to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the “Vanderbilt FIRST” initiative that aims to “recruit at least 18 tenure-track faculty from minoritized [sic] racial and ethnic groups,” according to data reviewed by The Post.

The prestigious Nashville, Tenn., university has an endowment of more than $10 billion — ranked among America’s top 20 — but said the funds were needed to “identify and eliminate organizational barriers that impede full participation, advancement, and thriving of racially diverse faculty in academia.”

Drexel University, a less wealthy but still well-regarded Philadelphia institution, similarly received more than $4.6 million from the National Cancer Institute for “Catalyzing Systemic Change at Drexel University to Support Diverse Faculty in Health Disparities Research.”

Also getting the chop was a $2.4 million grant to the University of Virginia from the National Institute of Mental Health for studying “Neurodevelopmental Biomarkers of Late Diagnosis in Female and Gender Diverse Autism” — part of a larger endowment totaling $12 million announced by UVA in 2022.

RFK Jr.’s HHS slashes $122M across nearly 200 DEI, LGBT-focused research projects

The grants were determined by the Trump administration to focus too narrowly on sexual or racial minority groups — drawing outrage from some holdover officials from the Biden administration.

nypost.com

 

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Ex-DEI University Staffer Wins $265K Settlement After Alleged Hostility Over Her Being White​

A former DEI staffer at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire will receive a $265,000 settlement after she sued the school, alleging discrimination for being white.

Rochelle Hoffman, a former employee at UW-Eau Claire, brought the case in 2023 after she was promoted to interim director of the campus’s Multicultural Student Services office.

The school’s former vice chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Student Affairs, Olga Diaz, was allegedly told by students that a white woman was not fit to preside over a position intended to serve students of color.

“You hired a white woman as the interim director?” one student allegedly said, according to a federal complaint against the university.

According to the complaint, a different student asked, “Do you personally feel white staff can do as effective a job as a person of color, within a space for people of color?”

Hoffman said she felt she had to resign after eight months of intense hostility and staff questioning her “legitimacy” after being promoted to interim director of the campus’s Multicultural Student Services office, the complaint states.

Ex-DEI university staffer wins $265K settlement after alleged hostility over her being white

Ex-University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire DEI staffer, Rochelle Hoffman, has received a $265,000 settlement after suing the school for alleged discrimination for being white.

nypost.com

“within a space for people of color”

Doesn’t really jive with the current claim that those spaces were always for “everyone”.

 

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Beginning in this upcoming admissions cycle, the new policy will require colleges and universities to report to the federal government the SAT and ACT scores of admitted students, plus their GPAs, along with demographic information.

This action enforces the 2023 Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

Affirmative action allowed admissions offices to paper over the failures of the K-12 system by putting their thumbs on the scale of who did — and did not — get into elite schools. If a diverse group of students got into top colleges, the leftist movement was very willing to ignore how they got there.

Nothing justifies judging students on the basis of race — the Constitution and Title VI forbid it — or on the basis of anything other than their individual merits.

Trump Admin Is Eradicating Racism From College Admissions

Nothing justifies judging students on the basis of race or on the basis of anything other than their individual merits.

thefederalist.com

 

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This isn't DEI racism .... its just some stupid ppl choosing to do so.

 

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From the article:

Beginning in this upcoming admissions cycle, the new policy will require colleges and universities to report to the federal government the SAT and ACT scores of admitted students, plus their GPAs, along with demographic information.

This action enforces the 2023 Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

Affirmative action allowed admissions offices to paper over the failures of the K-12 system by putting their thumbs on the scale of who did — and did not — get into elite schools. If a diverse group of students got into top colleges, the leftist movement was very willing to ignore how they got there.

Nothing justifies judging students on the basis of race — the Constitution and Title VI forbid it — or on the basis of anything other than their individual merits.

Trump Admin Is Eradicating Racism From College Admissions

Nothing justifies judging students on the basis of race or on the basis of anything other than their individual merits.

thefederalist.com

there is a difference in fighting racism, and making the university report everything.

if an individual brings a charge against the university for racist admissions, then yeah look it up. otherwise the government doesn't need that information, and I would argue they don't have the muscle to do it.

willing to bet they avoid looking at athletes...