{"id":12429,"date":"2024-03-03T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/university-of-florida-fires-all-dei-employees\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T16:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T11:18:51","slug":"university-of-florida-fires-all-dei-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/university-of-florida-fires-all-dei-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida Fires All DEI Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The University of Florida fired all of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff in response to a new state law that forbids colleges from using state or federal funds for the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo comply with the Florida Board of Governor\u2019s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures, the University of Florida has closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials reported 13 positions were eliminated and 15 administrative appointments were ended for faculty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was made to comply with the Florida Board of Governor\u2019s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures. Approximately $5 million previously allocated to DEI initiatives will be reallocated into a faculty recruitment fund,\u201d WCJB\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2024\/03\/01\/university-florida-terminates-all-dei-employees-accordance-with-state-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: University of Florida has fired all employees related to DEI. The conservative counter-revolution has begun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lx0IAx0JHD\">pic.twitter.com\/Lx0IAx0JHD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1763637067840626807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/university-of-florida-fires-all-dei-employees\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida fired all of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff in response to a new state law that forbids colleges from using state or federal funds for the program. \u201cTo comply with the Florida Board of Governor\u2019s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures, the University of Florida has closed the Office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}