UNC System schools cut 59 jobs, move $17 million to comply with new diversity policy Posted 2024-09-11T14:36:05+00:00 - Updated 2024-09-11T21:04:26+00:00 UNC System Schools eliminate 59 DEI ...

In late May, the UNC Board of Governors revoked and replaced its 2019 diversity policy, which outlined several diversity jobs and their responsibility for coordinating DEI efforts across the system.

Welcome to Dean’s List, a higher education newsletter from The News & Observer and me, Korie Dean.. This week’s edition includes an early look at the UNC System programs granted DEI waivers ...

Andrew Tripp’s Feb. 5 memo was clear: UNC System schools could no longer require students to take courses related to DEI as part of their mandatory general-education curricula.

Amid increased threats to funding for higher education, the UNC System is implementing a “personnel cap” that will require campuses to implement new restrictions on salary spending, employee ...

For example, it would cut $5.4 million worth of vacant state employee jobs in the area known as general government, which includes agencies like the Department of Administration.

UNC System President Peter Hans speaks during a meeting of the UNC System Board of Governors on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown kmckeown@newsobserver.com ...

Schools within the UNC System cut nearly five dozen positions, reassigned more than 100 positions and redirected more than $17 million in funding to comply with a new system-wide diversity policy.

For example, it would cut $5.4 million worth of vacant state employee jobs in the area known as general government, which includes agencies like the Department of Administration.