{"id":130612,"date":"2024-05-31T03:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=130612"},"modified":"2024-05-31T03:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:01:35","slug":"unc-board-of-governors-repeals-dei-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=130612","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;UNC Board of Governors repeals DEI policies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2024\/05\/29\/15000-workers-in-alabama-are-paid-minimum-wage-or-below-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AL Political Reporter<\/a>: &#8220;The UNC System Board of Governors approved a new policy to repeal and replace its\u00a0previous diversity, equity and inclusion policies and requirements\u00a0for the system\u2019s 17 campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The repeal and replace vote taken on the consent agenda was 21-2. The only no votes came from members Joel Ford and Sonja Phillips Nichols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcarolina.edu\/apps\/bog\/doc.php?id=67963&amp;code=bog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new policy\u00a0<\/a>will\u00a0emphasize equality and nondiscrimination over diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)\u00a0concepts that critics and members of the UNC Board of Trustees (BOT) and Board of Governor (BOG) say are divisive and counterproductive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Political Reporter: &#8220;The UNC System Board of Governors approved a new policy to repeal and replace its\u00a0previous diversity, equity and inclusion policies and requirements\u00a0for the system\u2019s 17 campuses. The repeal and replace vote taken on the consent agenda was 21-2. The only no votes came from members Joel Ford and Sonja Phillips Nichols. The\u00a0new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130613,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130612\/revisions\/130613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}