Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the state’s colleges and universities are in the midst of a fight over whether diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives should be supported with tax-payer funding.
The Youngkin administration in recent months has been in contact with the state’s universities, like George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University, over key curriculum requirements that could be forcing left-wing DEI initiatives on students as well as about the bloat in funding for DEI-focused positions at the schools, the administration told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Virginia colleges have continued to fund DEI positions and initiatives, despite Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to stop the practice, with a report from the Heritage Foundation released in September finding that Virginia public universities on average have the largest…
