Glenn Youngkin, an Anti-D.E.I. Governor, Once Championed Diversity
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Glenn Youngkin, an Anti-D.E.I. Governor, Once Championed Diversity

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Before Glenn Youngkin was a culture warrior who cheered the demise of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, he was a financial executive who worried about a lack of diversity in his field. “One of the clear challenges in the financial sector broadly is…

New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order
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New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The New York State Education Department on Friday issued a defiant response to the Trump administration’s threats to pull federal funding from public schools over certain diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from the conciliatory approach of other institutions in recent…

How Might the Trump Administration Target D.E.I. in Public Schools?
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How Might the Trump Administration Target D.E.I. in Public Schools?

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines What counts as a D.E.I. program in a school? And how do such programs differ from simply learning and talking about race and identity? Those questions have been central to local education debates over the past five years. Now, they are most likely…

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
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Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Pentagon and U.S. Naval Academy are proceeding with actions in support of the Trump administration’s push to eliminate “woke” initiatives throughout the federal government. The U.S. Naval Academy said it had ended its use of affirmative action in admissions, reversing a policy…

University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
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University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, the school announced on Thursday, seeking to overhaul an ambitious and expensive initiative that it had long cast as a model for American higher education. Michigan — one of the…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

The University of California Will Stop Requiring Diversity Statements in Hiring
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The University of California Will Stop Requiring Diversity Statements in Hiring

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The University of California said on Wednesday that it would stop requiring the use of diversity statements in hiring, a practice praised by some who said it made campuses more inclusive but criticized by others who said it did the opposite. Diversity statements…

Judge Blocks Policy That Would Expel Transgender Troops
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Judge Blocks Policy That Would Expel Transgender Troops

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from banning transgender people from serving in the military. In a forcefully written opinion that rebuked the president’s effort, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes issued an injunction that allows trans troops to keep…

Opinion | The MAGA Culture War Comes for Georgetown Law
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Opinion | The MAGA Culture War Comes for Georgetown Law

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines This might sound like a funny thing to say, but I’ve rarely read a more unconstitutional letter. On Monday, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sent the dean of Georgetown University Law Center, a Catholic law school, a…