June 1 marked the first day of Pride Month, a time to celebrate and increase the visibility of the LGBTQ community. However, the University of North Florida’s LGBTQ Center closed a month before. UNF announced it would be phased out alongside other Office of Diversity and Inclusion centers last semester, in compliance with SB 266.
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This article was first published in Spinnaker’s DEI Edition Magazine and released in early 2024. To read this article as it appeared in the digital copy, click here. President Moez Limayem and I sat down for an interview at the exact table, seats and room we’d interviewed in about a year prior. It was a.
Last Wednesday, the University of North Florida announced its plans to phase out the Office of Diversity and Inclusion after the Florida Board of Governors passed Regulation 9.016 earlier in the day. The regulation bans using state or federal funds on programs and activities that “advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion” or “promote or engage.
When Samira Yssa first heard that Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., was invited to speak at the University of North Florida, she began forming a group that planned to reserve tickets and protest inside the lecture. Tickets were free for students and Yssa, a junior at UNF majoring in biomedical sciences,.