Harvard drop the term DEI

 Washington Examiner:

Harvard University is changing the name of its diversity, equity, and inclusion office to the Office of Community and Campus Life after battling with the Trump administration over its DEI initiatives.

Sherri Charleston, Harvard’s chief diversity officer — now the university’s chief Community and Campus Life officer — announced the restructuring of the DEI office in a Monday email.

“In the weeks and months ahead, we will take steps to make this change concrete and to work with all of Harvard’s schools and units to implement these vital objectives, including shared efforts to reexamine and reshape the missions and programs of offices across the university,” Charleston wrote.

The announcement came just hours after university lawyers and the Trump administration held a conference regarding the government’s freeze of $2.2 billion in federal funding due to the university’s DEI initiatives and lack of action on campus antisemitism.

Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration last week, with University President Alan Garber accusing the federal government of seeking “unprecedented and improper control” over “whom we hire and what we teach.”
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DEI was mainly a term used to justify racial preferences, in my opinion.  I suspect they realized that DEI would be difficult to defend, so they changed the name of their program in a way that was not so obvious.  We will have to see whether their name for the office makes any difference.

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