That’s ENOUGH! People have RUN OUT OF PATIENCE for the NONSENSE, DISCRIMINATORY, failed ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion.

At least 14 states this year will consider legislation that could dismantle the ways college administrators attempt to correct historical and structural gender and racial disparities and make campus climates more inclusive, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education analysis.

The Chronicle has identified at least 19 bills that will be considered in the coming months that seek to ban the employment and funding of diversity, equity, and inclusion offices; the use of pledges by faculty and staff to commit to creating a more inclusive environment on campus, commonly known as diversity statements; mandatory diversity training; and identity-based preferences for hiring and admissions.

While college administrators argue that they have a legal, moral, and financial obligation to more aggressively tackle forms of discrimination on campus and provide extra resources to historically marginalized employees and students — who will soon make up more than half of the nation’s population — opponents say those efforts are ineffective, illegal, and, in fact, discriminatory against white men.

Legislators introduced several bills in January aiming to outlaw diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in educational institutions in states across the U.S.

Colleges and universities often use diversity statements, which require professors to say how they will advance DEI in schools, and many schools require mandatory DEI trainings for faculty. Several states have outlawed the use of DEI in public universities, including Texas and Florida, and now several more states have introduced bills to address DEI, including South Carolina, Indiana and Kentucky. (RELATED: Claudine Gay Had A History Of Adding To Harvard’s Diversity Bureaucracy Before Stepping Up To The Presidency)

“Campus DEI bureaucracies threaten student and faculty speech rights. Those offices are used to advance a campus orthodoxy and stifle free speech and academic freedom. DEI statements, which are used to weed out dissenting views among students and faculty, function as de facto political litmus tests and are unconstitutional,” Tyler Coward, lead counsel of government affairs for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a free speech legal organization, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Kentucky’s bill would ban public universities from requiring students and faculty to endorse “divisive concepts” and also from having to take part in mandatory trainings teaching those concepts. It almost aims to ban diversity statements that require students or faculty to endorse ideology or political viewpoints to be eligible for being hiring or graduating.
The bill also bans race-based scholarships and would give persons affected by violations of the law the right to sue the institution for damages of between $1,000 and $100,000 per violation.

Kentucky’s Democratic governor Andy Beshear could veto the law, but Republicans have enough power to override it with a supermajority in the state.

Another bill in South Carolina also takes aim at DEI programs and diversity statements.

House bill 4663 would outlaw “compelling, requiring, inducing, or soliciting any person to provide a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement” or giving preference to anyone who has provided “a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement.” The bill also would outlaw the creation of DEI offices at state institutions, including universities, and would require existing DEI offices to be shut down.

DEI offices on college campuses are NOW ILLEGAL illegal in Texas, as 30 new laws went into effect as of January 1, 2024! ‘Exhausted’, ‘confused,’ ‘unprecedented’: Texas professors, students reflect on DEI ban. Opponents of the ban on diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programs at Texas public universities and colleges say the new law removes protections against the historic exclusion of students of color and those who are LGBTQ+.

Some universities jumped into overdrive as soon as Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill in June, immediately cutting DEI and related offices, such as multicultural and LGBTQ+ resource centers. Other institutions remain in limbo, unsure what if any actions to take ahead of the Jan. 1 deadline.

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