Posted on Feb 13, 2025
Exclusive: At the University of Michigan, DEI Now Hides in Office of ‘Community Culture’
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The school removed a "diversity" tab from its website and purged the homepage of its diversity office, our Aaron Sibarium reports. In its place came a new page for "Community Culture," which states that "culture," rather than DEI, "is at the heart of everything we do."
None of the new pages use the term "diversity" or "DEI." They do, however, link to the same old DEI materials, "including a DEI 2.0 strategic plan that is in effect through 2028," Sibarium writes. "And lo and behold, the office of 'Community Culture' employs all the same staff as the former diversity office." Patricia Coleman-Burns, the former "DEI Strategic Planning Co-Lead" is now the "Strategic Planning Co-Lead." Clever.
"Trump has promised to investigate universities as part of his sweeping crackdown on DEI. The tweaks to Michigan’s website illustrate how schools may attempt to disguise their diversity initiatives without getting rid of them, keeping the programs and personnel but dressing them up in new language."
None of the new pages use the term "diversity" or "DEI." They do, however, link to the same old DEI materials, "including a DEI 2.0 strategic plan that is in effect through 2028," Sibarium writes. "And lo and behold, the office of 'Community Culture' employs all the same staff as the former diversity office." Patricia Coleman-Burns, the former "DEI Strategic Planning Co-Lead" is now the "Strategic Planning Co-Lead." Clever.
"Trump has promised to investigate universities as part of his sweeping crackdown on DEI. The tweaks to Michigan’s website illustrate how schools may attempt to disguise their diversity initiatives without getting rid of them, keeping the programs and personnel but dressing them up in new language."
Exclusive: At the University of Michigan, DEI Now Hides in Office of ‘Community Culture’
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They just can't help themselves. It used to be "out of many, one", now it's 'one supercedes the many'.
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SGM Jeff Mccloud
LTC Trent Klug - Again, they are goals and not quotas, and it's applicant pools, accessed candidates. But yes, the memo asks the recruiters to make some attempts in recruiting markets that they might be ignoring, in addition to the easier markets.
And let's be completely honest, recruiters themselves are one part of the reason that qualified applicants who aren't white males don't end up in the applicant pools, because some recruiters are avoiding that market.
And again, as these are just goals, the memo is telling them to at least try.
And let's be completely honest, recruiters themselves are one part of the reason that qualified applicants who aren't white males don't end up in the applicant pools, because some recruiters are avoiding that market.
And again, as these are just goals, the memo is telling them to at least try.
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SGM Jeff Mccloud
LTC Trent Klug - short version:
The counter argument would be that the other race has already been recruited less, every year since 1947, because of no DEI, and DEI would suggest that you try to recruit all the qualified applicants fairly.
The counter argument would be that the other race has already been recruited less, every year since 1947, because of no DEI, and DEI would suggest that you try to recruit all the qualified applicants fairly.
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LTC Trent Klug
SGM Jeff Mccloud That's not what Browns memo did. It specifically targeted one race to be less recruited than the others. It did not mention to recruit the races equally at all.
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You mean, sort of like when the Secretary of Defense renamed Fort Liberty back to Ft. Bragg by picking another Soldier named "Bragg"?? That kind of "head fake"...?? I see. OK.
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Not sure how we went from "Office of Community Culture" to a Ft Bragg discussion. Ft Bragg is the home to the 82nd - they have a long and rich history When I hear the name Ft Liberty, I think of some far-off FOB in Afghanistan. This was a slap in the face to all who have served at Ft Bragg. Political correctness has degraded our military and it's time to refocus on the mission. Ensuring that everyone feels valued and respected as an individual is not DEI, it's good leadership.
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