While University of Michigan leadership recently announced its plans to roll back “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming, it may face resistance from its own faculty.
A recent webinar that drew 900 participants urged faculty to use their “collective power” to resist President Donald Trump’s attempts to push back against DEI in higher education.
The Trump administration has engaged in “very substantial overreach,” UM Law Professor Samuel Bagenstos said during the webinar titled “Diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives are legally defensible and here is how higher education should respond.”
The administration is “trying to suggest and intimidate people into thinking that DEI programming is inherently unlawful when, in fact, DEI programming of many, many, many, many, many kinds is perfectly lawful,” Bagenstos said.