The University of Virginia (UVA) Board of Visitors may have voted to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on Friday, but the school still has a long way to go before that’s reality.
On Friday, the university’s board of visitors voted to adopt a plan to remove all DEI programming at the school, including in “admissions, hiring, promotion, compensation, financial aid, scholarships, prizes, administrative support, discipline, housing, graduation ceremonies and all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”
In doing so, UVA became one of the first public schools in the country to preemptively comply with the Trump administration’s orders and guidance on eradicating DEI. The board’s resolution requires university President Jim Ryan to report back in 30 days on efforts to comply after he spent his entire tenure as president building the infrastructure.
The move was made to comply with the…
