UNC System faculty at odds with process that aims to eliminate DEI: ‘Corrosive effect on trust' - Open Campus

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UNC System faculty at odds with process that aims to eliminate DEI: ‘Corrosive effect on trust' - Open Campus

Less than a week after its surprise inclusion at a University of North Carolina Board of Governors meeting, faculty and students across the system are reacting with confusion and anger at a policy that seeks to eliminate DEI on campuses. “We are stunned at the speed, the secrecy and the exclusion,” said Wade Maki, the head of the UNC System’s Faculty Assembly and a professor at UNC-Greensboro. “Very few people in the UNC System seemed to know th…