Florida governor Ron DeSantis has a plan to defund diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at state institutions. His playbook is based on model legislation from the Manhattan Institute.
West Virginia University officials have suspended a contentious proposal that would have advanced professors doing diversity work while making it easier to fire tenured colleagues whose work is deemed subpar.
<p>PEN America's Jeremy Young explains how Florida's reforms go further than any others in American history to limit the institutional autonomy of colleges and subject their operations to more direct political control. </p>
Texas governor Greg Abbott is taking aim at diversity, equity and inclusion practices in hiring. The move comes shortly after Florida announced reforms to defund DEI efforts.