The #UNC #System is coming after #DEI on #campuses. The #LGBTQ #community worries it's next.

2 months before, the #BoardofGovernors had repealed its #policy requiring #DEI #offices, #staff, and #initiatives at every #publicuniversity in the #state and replaced it with a #directive #enshrining “#institutional #neutrality.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NorthCarolina #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.wfae.org/2024-09-02/unc-system-dei-diversity-lgbtq

#Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis #cheers as #UniversityofFlorida's #antiLGBTQ #president #BenSasse #fires all #diversity #staff.

#Memo cited a new #regulation from the State #BoardofGovernors.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.advocate.com/news/ron-desantis-university-dei

The #Florida #CultureWar sandbox is expensive. $17 million in subsidies for ideologues to do their work.

Not including the cost to bodies like local school boards.

Earmarking $2mi now for #BoardOfGovernors

I imagine that universities will have to pay own expenses out of own budgets, though

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article270290952.html