Ron DeSantis Plans to Defund Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Programs in Florida Universities

After banning AP African American Research programs from being taught in Florida excessive colleges, Governor Ron DeSantis is on his subsequent mission.

Tuesday, the republican governor introduced a number of excessive schooling reforms that his administration plans to perform. It consists of defunding variety, fairness and inclusion applications in each Florida college. Desantis says he additionally desires to ensure that everybody attending a Florida college takes “certain core course requirements, that’s really focused on giving them the foundation so that they can think for themselves and the core curriculum must be grounded in actual history, the actual philosophy that has shaped Western civilization.”

“We are also going to eliminate all DEI and [critical race theory] bureaucracies in the state of Florida. No funding, and that will wither on the vine,” DeSantis stated. “And I think that that’s very important because it really serves as an ideological filter, a political filter.”

Historically, DEI applications assist universities foster a extra inclusive and supportive area for college kids and employees who’re underrepresented or topic to discrimination. Nonetheless, Desantis believes these applications are a drain on assets and impose an agenda on folks.

This announcement is simply one of many governor and potential 2024 presidential hopeful’s “stop woke” agenda. He beforehand tried to ban office variety initiatives. Nonetheless, the try was unsuccessful. He’s additionally pushed for the ban of crucial race concept and simply final March signed into legislation the “Don’t Say Gay” invoice, which bans Florida lecturers from holding classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identification. Final week, Superior Placement course on African American historical past was banned from Florida colleges.

Talking at State School of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota Tuesday, DeSantis’ additionally proposed in his new greater schooling reform to give college boards of trustees and the presidents of the colleges the ability to name a post-tenure evaluate at any time for professors. Tenured college at the moment may be reviewed as soon as each 5 years, he stated. He additionally proposes amending requirements for preeminent state analysis universities to require “annual research expenditures of $50 million for STEM related programs, businesses or industry partners that will employ Floridians.”

New greater schooling proposal builds off our 2022 reforms:
– Core programs rooted in Western custom
– Elimination of DEI/CRT bureaucracies
– Bolster civics-focused institutes at UF, FSU and FIU
– Extra accountability for tenured college pic.twitter.com/XV6mExlzHJ

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) January 31, 2023