New College of Florida's Board of Trustees abolished the office handling diversity, equity and inclusion programs during a contentious and emotional meeting Tuesday that included testimony from worrisome students.
Among DeSantis' New College board appointees is prominent conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who pushed at his first meeting on Jan. 31 to abolish diversity programs.
Additionally, only one of the employees in the Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence was primarily focused on DEI programs. The others managed grants, worked on community outreach and performed other activities that aren't controversial. Keenan wondered if the board was spending a lot of time and energy on something that was relatively limited in scope. She suggested that the effort spent weeding out DEI programs was out of proportion to the amount of DEI that actually exists on campus.Keenan, Lipinski and Trustee Mary Ruiz voted against eliminating the diversity office.
Additionally, the board voted to have Corcoran create a school policy that prohibits spending money on any DEI efforts. The rollback of New College's diversity programs came at the end of a 3-1/2-hour meeting that featured emotional testimony for students, parents and others. About 200 people attended the meeting.New College of Florida is in Sarasota, in the central part of the state just south of Tampa on the Gulf Coast.
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