GET ME REWRITE!! Wisconsin GOP legislative leaders show their true colors with efforts to defund campus diversity offices

 

Headline:  Milwaukee Independent, 5/12/2023

Photos:  Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin  Assembly

The issues have bubbled to the forefront this month, starting with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ announcement last week that he wants to defund campus diversity offices. He called the offices a waste of taxpayer dollars and said they exacerbate the racial divide. 

Governor Tony Evers has called Vos’ proposal “ridiculous,” but Vos’ plan tracks with a national GOP push to dismantle campus diversity offices. [emphasis added] 

Republican lawmakers in at least a dozen states have proposed more than 30 diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in higher education, according to an analysis using the bill-tracking software Plural. Some proposals would ban DEI offices or any funding for them. Others would forbid administrators from considering diversity as part of the hiring or admissions process.

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