University of Tennessee Students Panic Over Defunding “Office for Diversity and Inclusion”
The protest comes as the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday sent to the Senate floor a bill to shift funding from salaries.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Students freak out as Tennessee votes to defund “Office for Diversity and Inclusion”
A move months in the making has finally come to fruition as both Tennessee houses have voted to defund the University of Tennessee’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion at the Knoxville location, according to Inside Higher Ed.
The office is known for its bizarre ways of promoting diversity, including warnings against Christmas parties and for encouraging the use of gender neutral pronouns. Both of which eventually had to come down after backlash, though students still supported the office.
If Thursday’s bill is signed into law, the $436,000 appropriation for the university’s office will be barred for the coming budget year, with the money being used to fund minority scholarships for engineering students.
Students freak out as Tennessee votes to defund “Office for Diversity and Inclusion” (Red Alert Politics)
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It is funny. A little realism for these diversity dopes. If the governor does not sign, then he needs to go the way of the dodo.
According to the UT Factbook, the University enrolled 27,845 students in Fall 2015, served by an additional 9,813 faculty and staff. The petitioners have a goal of obtaining 2,500 signatures for their advocacy. The advocates are seeking their goals with 6% of the campus, and have gotten about half of that.
https://oira.utk.edu/factbook
Maybe the the National Science Foundation should fund a study of microaggressions committed by the students as they respond to the cuts!