Grand Challenges and Opportunities Part 2 - Rebuilding Trust After Abandoning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

How Higher Education Leaders Can Repair Harm and Renew Commitments to Diverse Students and Employees In recent years, colleges and universities across the nation rapidly retreated from commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion. Leaders fired chief diversity officers and other DEI professionals, scrubbed diversity language from websites, renamed programs and positions, closed culture centers and DEI offices, eliminated scholarships for underrepresented students, and defunded initiatives created to foster belonging and academic success. This widespread abandonment of longstanding commitmen…