Texas Public Universities Save Millions of Dollars After Slashing DEI Jobs

Public universities across Texas have slashed hundreds of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) jobs and freed up tens of millions of dollars, university administrators told state lawmakers. At a May 14 hearing before the Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education, public university leaders tried to demonstrate their effort to comply with a new law aimed at dismantling DEI offices and programs in taxpayer-funded higher education. Since the law took effect Jan. 1, the University of Texas (UT) system’s nine academic universities and six health institutions have closed 21 DEI offices, dissolved 311 full- and part-time positions, and canceled a total of 681 DEI-related “contracts, programs and trainings.”...