Public colleges in North Carolina must remove all course credit requirements linked to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) following President Trump’s executive order signed last month.
The UNC System Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel Andrew Tripp wrote in a Wednesday memo to all 17 chancellors across the state that “all general education requirements and major-specific requirements mandating completion of course credits related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or any other topic identified in Section VII of the Equality Policy are suspended.”
Tripp warned in the memo, which was obtained by The Hill, that institutions risk “jeopardizing over $1.4B in critical federal research” funding if they do not comply with the executive order dubbed “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”
A chancellor can permit a waiver for “individual…
