The University of Michigan is shuttering its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, joining several other higher education titans in following the Trump administration’s anti-DEI efforts.

The University of Michigan fired Rachel Dawson after she was accused of making antisemitic remarks. Dawson insists she never made the comments attributed to her. A Black woman who ran the Office of ...

The University of Michigan said it would close its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office on Thursday in an effort to comply with President Trump’s executive order outlawing the practice ...

The University says it will shift resources from those offices and programs to student-facing programs like financial aid and counseling.

In a memo sent July 8 to tenure system faculty, deans, school directors and chairpersons, Interim Provost Thomas Jeitschko ...

The move to close the DEI office is the latest in a series of changes to the school's DEI efforts. In December, the university announced it would no longer solicit diversity statements from ...

The University of Michigan said it is closing two offices and an effort tied to diversity, equity and inclusion and shifting the resources elsewhere.

University of Michigan shutters all of its DEI offices as Trump continues to exert influence over higher ed The university cited Trump’s executive orders seeking to end DEI programs across the ...

All three University of Alabama System campuses will be closing their diversity, equity and inclusion offices and opening new offices under different names. The schools cite a law recently signed ...

The university said it made the move to comply with new state and federal laws and guidance.

While we welcome the University of Michigan’s modest improvement, we urge all universities to pursue much more sweeping efforts, beginning with dismantling the DEI offices entirely.