Critics of anti-DEI legislation, including national and state teachers unions and free speech advocacy groups, likened these laws to censorship and say they will halt progress addressing inequality.

Changes are coming to Middle Tennessee State University as it works to comply with a state law that bars it from DEI efforts. The public university, located in Murfreesboro, is home to around ...

Since 2023, state lawmakers have introduced at least 85 anti-DEI bills across 28 states, many using model legislation from the Manhattan and Goldwater Institutes, two Republican think tanks ...

A previous attempt to tie student scholarships to an institution's compliance with a new anti-DEI law for state universities ...

Below are snapshots from some of the 19 states that have introduced or passed anti-DEI legislation. ... The bulk of anti-DEI efforts is focused on state agencies and higher education institutions.

House Bill 4 went into effect on June 27. At a Tuesday legislative committee, universities said they were in compliance by that date.

The university is only one of several institutions in the nation that the recent wave of anti-DEI legislation has impacted. NBC News reported that A1 states have proposed legislation challenging ...

The state’s new law will take effect on July 1, 2024, and requires all public colleges and universities, public K-12 schools and any government institution with DEI programs in Utah to change ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Ohio House is mulling a major higher education bill that would ban DEI, but Ohio is not the first state to implement such legislation. Senate Bill 1 had its first ...

BOISE — Idaho’s legislative Diversity Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, work group focused on definitions, university policies and potential legislation in its second meeting.