UNC votes to defund DEI in next year’s budget, move $$$ to cops and security
You have to admire the UNC-CH board of trustees for making this move. Granted, two of them ARE running for higher office this year. (And ONE is on today’s ballot, while another appears again in November.) You have to ask: WHAT took so long?
Campus security has been in desperate need of more help for years. Hard-leftists in the administration and faculty have done their damnedest to disarm and neuter campus police. They’ve created a welcoming environment for left-wingers inside and outside the college community to come on campus and treat it like their very own hellish marxist playground.
It’s interesting how little of this nonsense we see going on outside of college campus and college towns. SO few people in the real world will tolerate their crap.
DEI is so inter-woven into the bureaucratic structure at Carolina that it will take years and years to weed it all out. And don’t forget that the authoritarians and race-pimps who presided over the implementation of DEI are still in place. The mentality behind that mess is still present and accounted for.
They can change the name of what they do. They can pay for it with other budget line items. To get the disease called DEI OUT of our flagship university for GOOD, you’re going to need to go to war and weed out a lot of troublemaking vermin currently ensconced in the administrative and faculty ranks. If the mindset is allowed to remain, they’ll find a way to do what they want. (Just wait for when the trustees are distracted by one of their numerous cocktail parties or basketball games.)
Another thought: If the UNC-CH trustees can do something like this, why can’t the community colleges and every other state-funded college around the state do the same? Here in bright-red Moore County, Sandhills Community College has a bear-hug on its DEI program. We’ve written about it extensively, but the trustees sure are slow to move.
A few of them have told us something called a “strategic plan” pledges to wipe DEI off the campus over four or five years. First, I don’t believe this strategic plan is a binding document. (It’s not made available to the public via the college’s website, by the way.) Second, if the UNC-CH trustees just wiped out DEI’s money with one vote, why can’t Sandhills Community College – or any other college – do the same exact thing?
Keep fighting, folks. Small victories like what we got in Chapel Hill are great, but this one is just getting started.
I find it curious that the UNC CH Board is undoing what they should not have done in the first place. Oh wait there is an election. Bet next year they put people in who will quietly go back to the Communist way.
@Matt, You hit the nail on the head! That board is full of RINOS who are buddies to Berger and Moore. They have been EXTREMLY LIBERAL….until NOW. What has changed? it’s not their views! The NC registered republicans are sick and tired of sending their hard earned money to these Indoctrination Camps known as College.
Indeed. Too little. Way too late. For the wrong reasons. For a person using rational thought processes, it all equates to no confidence.