Ohio State University (OSU) at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Center for Belonging and Social Change on Friday.
The office closure reportedly affected 16 professional employee positions. According to WBN, the school said no worker would lose his position within at least 60 days, which would help find internal work for affected employees.
OSU President Ted Carter announced the closure Thursday and the university will be eliminated by federal law Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Campus measures.
“The federal government has expressed its intention to implement ineffective guidance in a wide range of educational activities, including withdrawing federal funds that are very important for our students, academic and operational success,” Carter wrote in a message posted on the OSU website.
Ohio State University (OSU) stopped its Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Belonging and Social Change on Friday. (Photo by Megan Jelinger/AFP) (Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images)
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“In Ohio, the bill that prohibits Dee also passed the legislature, and Ohio’s attorney general (our legal attorney) advised us that his office agreed to the federal government’s position on using race in educational activities.”
Scholarships administered by the Office of Academic Affairs will adjust their eligibility criteria. The Center for Student Life Center Attribution and Social Change offers programs and services set to end Friday.
Carter added: “We will include the Office of Sunset Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) and some of its services, scholarships managed by the Office of Academic Affairs, including the Morrier Scholarship Program and the Young Scholar Program, and maintained with improved eligibility guidelines.”
OSU’s student newspaper Lantern reported that OSU’s Hale Black Culture Center, the Kilwan Institute for Race and Ethnic Studies and “other DEI-related units at the university are currently under review by the president.”
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OSU President Ted Carter announced the closure Friday, citing federal law enforces the university to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusive measures on campus. (Jodi Miller/Ohio State University via AP)
Carter’s announcement comes as universities and universities terminated DEI-related tasks, policies and programs under the guidance of the Trump administration’s release of a February 14 memorandum. If these agencies do not comply, they may face loss of federal funds, according to the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Office.
Trump in January Signed an executive order Terminate dei “discrimination” in the federal workforce, as well as federal contracts and spending.
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The executive order directs each department and agency to terminate “private sector discrimination”, including civil compliance investigations.
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dei = diversity, fairness and inclusion. (dzmitry dzemidovich)
Last December, the University of Michigan announced that it would no longer “request for diversity statements, as part of teacher recruitment, promotion and tenure.”
Dei’s other universities include Northeastern University, Missouri State University and West Virginia University.
Many of Dei’s supporters believe that the effort corrects historical injustice and general inequality.
