{"id":37263,"date":"2025-03-28T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/university-of-michigan-shutters-its-flagship-diversity-program\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:28:47","slug":"university-of-michigan-shutters-its-flagship-diversity-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/university-of-michigan-shutters-its-flagship-diversity-program\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Michigan shutters its flagship diversity program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns grow as university becomes latest to capitulate to Trump\u2019s anti-DEI demands<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/28\/donald-trump-white-house-washington-latest-live-us-politics-news\">Follow US politics live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The University of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/michigan\">Michigan<\/a> has shuttered its flagship diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program and closed its corresponding office, becoming the latest university to capitulate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s anti-DEI demands.<\/p>\n<p>The school launched the program in 2016, at the beginning of Trump\u2019s first administration, and it became a model for other DEI initiatives across the country. In announcing the DEI strategic plan\u2019s end, university leaders pointed to the success the program had.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/28\/university-michigan-ends-dei-program\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns grow as university becomes latest to capitulate to Trump\u2019s anti-DEI demands Follow US politics live The University of Michigan has shuttered its flagship diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program and closed its corresponding office, becoming the latest university to capitulate to Donald Trump\u2019s anti-DEI demands. The school launched the program in 2016, at the &#8230; <a title=\"University of Michigan shutters its flagship diversity program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/university-of-michigan-shutters-its-flagship-diversity-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about University of Michigan shutters its flagship diversity program\">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-37263","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\/37263","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=37263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}