{"id":2243840,"date":"2024-05-13T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unc-chapel-hill-votes-to-gut-dei-department-give-money-to-campus-police\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T23:57:45","slug":"unc-chapel-hill-votes-to-gut-dei-department-give-money-to-campus-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unc-chapel-hill-votes-to-gut-dei-department-give-money-to-campus-police\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Chapel Hill has approved cuts to DEI department funding, directing funds to campus police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Func-chapel-hill-votes-to-gut-dei-department-give-money-to-campus-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2243840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The UNC Chapel Hill board of trustees voted to cut funding for the DEI department, diverting $2.3 million to campus police amid\u200b anti-Israel protests. This decision\u200c could lead to the dissolution of the diversity office. The \u200dmove, sparked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-propose-3-7b-capitol-security-bill\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats propose .7B capitol security bill\">budget concerns<\/a>, aims for unity and diverse perspectives. Critics argue for prioritizing all\u200b students&#8217; needs over disruptive actions. The UNC Chapel Hill board of trustees&#8217; decision to shift $2.3\u200b million from the \u2063DEI department to campus police\u2063 during anti-Israel\u200b protests may dissolve the \u2063diversity office. Intended \u200dfor\u200d unity and diverse \u200cviewpoints, critics stress prioritizing\u2063 all students&#8217; welfare over disruptions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill\u2019s board of trustees has voted to gut funding for the school\u2019s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department and give the money to campus police instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNC Chapel Hill\u2019s board <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/education\/2024-05-13\/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">voted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  unanimously to redirect $2.3 million in diversity funding toward campus safety and police at a special meeting on Monday to address the university\u2019s budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The move could essentially eliminate the school\u2019s diversity office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The beefed up funding for campus police comes in the wake of weeks of anti-Israel demonstrations on campus, which have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.unc.edu\/news\/students-others-arrested-during-pro-palestinian-demonstration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">resulted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in several arrests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The school\u2019s budget committee introduced the amendment to cut the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uc-berkeley-spends-25-million-a-year-on-diversity-and-inclusion\/\" title=\"UC Berkeley Spends  Million A Year On \u2018Diversity And Inclusion\u2019\">diversity budget<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think that DEI in a lot of people\u2019s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,\u201d budget committee vice chairman Marty Kotis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/education\/2024-05-13\/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cWe need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s important to consider the needs of all 30,000 students, not just the 100 or so that may want to disrupt the university\u2019s operations,\u201d Kotis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/unc-board-slashes-diversity-program-funding-divert-money-110182543\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cIt takes away resources for others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy personal opinion is that there\u2019s administrative bloat in the university,\u201d Board Chairman David Boliek <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article288473709.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the Raleigh News &#038; Observer. \u201cAny cuts in administration and diverting of dollars to rubber-meets-the-road efforts like public safety and teaching is important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-Israel protests have roiled UNC Chapel Hill\u2019s campus for weeks. Last month, police detained more than 30 people at a pro-Palestinian encampment where protesters took down the American flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen you destroy property or you take down the U.S flag and you have to put up gates around it \u2014 that costs money,\u201d Kotis, the budget committee vice chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfae.org\/race-equity\/2024-05-13\/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s imperative that we have the proper resources for law enforcement to protect the campus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dozens of protesters have been arrested across multiple campuses, including at Northeastern University in Boston, Emerson College in Boston, Emory University in Atlanta, Virginia Tech University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Mary Washington in Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNC Chapel Hill is the flagship school of North Carolina\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/33-calif-colleges-to-require-vaccine-cards-to-attend-in-person-classes\/\" title=\"33 Calif. colleges to require vaccine cards to attend in-person classes\">public university system<\/a>, which is currently approaching a broader vote next week to replace its diversity policy. The move would reverse a 2019 DEI regulation for the university system\u2019s 17 schools and likely eliminate a number of DEI jobs at those schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If approved, the school system\u2019s new policy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/post\/dei-funding-unc-board-of-trustees-diversity-program-diverts-money-to-public-safety\/14808731\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">would<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  take effect immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In June, the Supreme Court ruled against the University of North Carolina\u2019s and Harvard\u2019s affirmative action policies in a decision that has had a profound effect on the admissions processes at schools across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC Chapel Hill&#8217;s trustees have decided unanimously to slash funds for the DEI department, reallocating $2.3 million to campus police for safety measures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2243841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1271725146.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1271725146.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}