University of Michigan leaders — the president, top administrators and the Board of Regents — collectively decided recently to end the institution’s massive diversity, equity and inclusion programming.
The main DEI office, several DEI programs, and DEI plans embedded into all 51 units of the state’s flagship campus over the last decade will be eliminated.
The Trump administration’s aggressive stance against DEI — it violates federal civil rights laws as an unconstitutional dogma based on race — played the largest role in the decision to wipe out the University of Michigan’s once ballyhooed DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan. It’s what campus leaders cited in their public announcement March 27 ending DEI.
A January report by The College Fix found 1,100 employees at the public university worked either full-time or part-time on DEI-related efforts, exposing the level of DEI bloat and likely swaying regents too.
But some student leaders say the root cause of the decision primarily lies elsewhere.
