DEI Captures the University of Florida
The University of Florida has created a radical diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy that promotes racial and political preferences in faculty hiring, encourages white employees to engage with a twelve-step program called Racists Anonymous, and maintains racially segregated scholarship programs that violate federal civil rights law.
I have obtained a cache of internal documents via Sunshine Law records requests revealing the stunning scope, scale, and radicalism of UF s diversity and inclusion programs. Officially, the university has reported to Governor Ron DeSantis that it hosts 31 DEI initiatives at a cost of $5 million per year. But these figures don t capture the extent of the university s rapidly growing DEI complex. In reality, DEI is not a series of standalone programs but an ideology that has been embedded in virtually every department on campus. (In an email, a University of Florida spokesman declined to answer specific questions about UF s DEI bureaucracy and claimed that the university is not indoctrinating. )
These changes happened quickly. Following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, UF leaders rolled out a massive number of diversity-focused initiatives. In July 2020, chief diversity officer Antonio Farias organized a university-wide plan for antiracism measures, which included mandatory diversity training for all students, faculty, and staff; an entire academic year focused on the Black experience, racism and inequity ; a presidential task force to explore the university s racist past; recommendations for renaming buildings, removing monuments, and banning historic racist imagery ; and a host of programs, speakers, workshops, and town halls dedicated to racialist ideology.
I can just imagine.
This is Chris Rufo.