{"id":16986,"date":"2023-07-24T01:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T01:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/?p=16986"},"modified":"2023-07-24T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T01:31:57","slug":"diversity-programs-were-once-celebrated-now-an-uproar-over-dei-has-cost-a-college-president-her-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/diversity-programs-were-once-celebrated-now-an-uproar-over-dei-has-cost-a-college-president-her-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity programs were once celebrated. Now an uproar over DEI has cost a college president her job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been three years since the death of George Floyd, which prompted\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2023\/05\/17\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-workplace\/#:~:text=Most%20workers%20have%20some%20experience,meetings%20on%20DEI%20at%20work.\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of businesses<\/a>\u00a0across the country to create programs fostering workplace diversity or to shore up existing programs. Regrettably, many of these programs are\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/diversity-roles-disappear-three-years-george-floyd-protests-inspired-rcna72026\" target=\"_blank\">being dramatically scaled back<\/a>\u00a0as part of the backlash against this nation\u2019s long overdue and desperately needed\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2021\/10\/26\/racial-reckoning-in-united-states-expanding-and-innovating-on-global-transitional-justice-experience-pub-85638\" target=\"_blank\">racial reckoning<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/23\/opinions\/dei-diversity-businesses-racism-affirmative-action-nelson\/index.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been three years since the death of George Floyd, which prompted\u00a0thousands of businesses\u00a0across the country to create programs fostering workplace diversity or to shore up existing programs. Regrettably, many of these programs are\u00a0being dramatically scaled back\u00a0as part of the backlash against this nation\u2019s long overdue and desperately needed\u00a0racial reckoning. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16987,"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16986\/revisions\/16987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusionchannel.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}