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The Iowa universities’ prohibition on DEI efforts comes as conservatives wage a campaign against them on a national scale.
Policymakers in states like Texas and Florida have pledged to eradicate DEI programs from public higher education, saying they have strayed from their original mission of lifting up historically marginalized groups in college. Both states have introduced legislative measures that would ban DEI efforts in public colleges.
And similarly to the Iowa universities, the University of Texas System last month stopped creation of new DEI policies.
Iowa lawmakers are considering legislation that would block regent-governing institutions from funding DEI offices or diversity-related administrative positions.
