{"id":37171,"date":"2025-03-27T19:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/arizona-senate-leader-calls-for-federal-meeting-on-dei-window-dressing-at-state-colleges\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:56:23","slug":"arizona-senate-leader-calls-for-federal-meeting-on-dei-window-dressing-at-state-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/arizona-senate-leader-calls-for-federal-meeting-on-dei-window-dressing-at-state-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Senate leader calls for federal meeting on DEI \u2018window dressing\u2019 at state colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Arizona state Senate President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6368332545112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren Petersen<\/a> will write to Education Secretary Linda McMahon asking for a meeting to discuss what he characterized as a campus crisis of DEI proliferation in the Grand Canyon State.<\/p>\n<p>Petersen, R-Gilbert, will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/linda-mcmahon-my-vision-eliminating-department-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tell McMahon the<\/a> Trump administration was right to make ending the ubiquity of on-campus &#8220;un-American propaganda,&#8221; including DEI initiatives, a chief priority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For too long, state and federal officials have allowed university regents, presidents, faculty, and staff to indoctrinate our young men and women. \u2026 They have taught our college students to hate the greatness of our nation and discriminate against others,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/wwe-legend-lead-education-department-after-clinching-final-match-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petersen wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many colleges have even done the bare minimum \u2014 or nothing at all in some cases \u2014 to stand in defense of our Jewish brothers and sisters who have been attacked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/az-senate-leader-urges-burgum-biden-obama-land-grabs-uranium-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AZ SEN URGES BURGUM TO END BIDEN-OBAMA-ERA LAND GRABS AT URANIUM SITES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was extremely heartened to learn that your department is holding universities accountable for their refusal to conform to existing laws blocking any institution from receiving federal funding due to discrimination,&#8221; he added, noting that it &#8220;did not go unnoticed&#8221; that some schools like Arizona State were on both of the public lists of universities under federal investigation on this front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/floridas-move-from-2000s-vexation-2020s-role-model-blueprint-arizona-lawmakers-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FL&#8217;S MOVE FROM 2000S ISSUE TO 2020S ROLE MODEL IS BLUEPRINT FOR AZ, OFFICIALS SAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arizona\u2019s public universities \u2026 have demonstrated a troubling track record of using tax dollars to implement DEI programs. Examples include job postings addressing commitments to DEI, required trainings for staff and faculty that push discriminatory ideas of \u2018critiquing whiteness\u2019 and \u2018heterosexuality is privileged and going unquestioned,\u2019 as well as requiring students to obtain credits in DEI-related courses like &#8216;Introduction to Queer Studies&#8217; and \u2018Multicultural Perspectives of Natural Resource Management.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Petersen then asked for a meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6369719995112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with McMahon<\/a> to help her in enforcing the mandate and hold Arizona colleges accountable that do not comply, adding he fears many stated reforms are just &#8220;window dressing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In ASU\u2019s case, college officials told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/news\/asu-among-universities-under-federal-dei-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOX-10<\/a> the university is no longer affiliated with the proscribed program the feds had highlighted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Arizona state Senate President Warren Petersen will write to Education Secretary Linda McMahon asking for a meeting to discuss what he characterized as a campus crisis of DEI proliferation in the Grand Canyon State. Petersen, R-Gilbert, will tell McMahon the Trump administration was right to make ending the ubiquity of on-campus &#8220;un-American propaganda,&#8221; including &#8230; <a title=\"Arizona Senate leader calls for federal meeting on DEI \u2018window dressing\u2019 at state colleges\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/arizona-senate-leader-calls-for-federal-meeting-on-dei-window-dressing-at-state-colleges\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arizona Senate leader calls for federal meeting on DEI \u2018window dressing\u2019 at state colleges\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}