OAN’s Brooke Mallory
3:31 PM – Monday, May 13, 2024
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has decided to transfer $2.3 million to “public safety” instead of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
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At a special Board of Trustees meeting on Monday morning, there was a unanimous vote. However, it is still unclear if the money redirection will undoubtedly result in job losses.
The vice chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, Marty Kotis, was who first proposed and approved the “flex cut amendment.” He referred to DEI initiatives as “discriminatory and divisive.”
“I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness,…
