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University of Michigan Moves to Eliminate DEI

March 27, 2025

The University of Michigan has become the latest institution of higher education to abandon the destructive practices and programming of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Building on the momentum of state level victories across the nation as well as the executive orders from President Trump, the university’s actions are indeed a cause for celebration.

But to truly restore the intellectual integrity of the university, its administrators must ensure that the institution also eliminates DEI requirements currently forced upon students throughout its mandatory academic course requirements, including those offered under different labels such as the required “Race and Ethnicity”  category that undergraduate students must complete. Not only are such requirements explicitly grounded in pushing politicized narratives around “race, ethnicity, and racism,” “racial and ethnic intolerance and the resulting inequality as it occurs in the United States,” but they also redirect millions of dollars of student tuition and taxpayer funding to such politicized coursework.

The Goldwater Institute is proud to be leading the charge against such ideological course mandates, and to truly rid itself of DEI’s footprint, the University of Michigan should follow the footsteps of the University of North Carolina in fully eliminating DEI based academic course mandates and adopting the policies proposed in the Institute’s model Freedom from Indoctrination Act.

Read more at https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/defeat-dei/

Matt Beienburg is the Director of Education Policy at the Goldwater Institute.

 

 

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