DEI will 'DIE' at UNC as board votes to end it and fund the police

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has finally figured it out: diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) sounds nice but so does the word 'abomination.' Also, it doesn't work. These late-comers to rational thinking have finally decided to transfer millions in funding that went to these leftist feel-good programs and hiring to public safety and campus police after seeing the results of anti-Israel/anti-Semitic demonstrations and concomitant rioting.

The unanimous decision by the trustees will now reallocate $2,300,000 previously spent on DEI garbage programs toward public safety measures and police as part of its annual budget.

Last fiscal year, UNC Chapel Hill’s operating budget surpassed $4 billion,  more than the GDP of Burundi.

"My personal opinion is that there’s administrative bloat in the university," Board Chair David Boliek told NC regional newspaper The News & Observer, anticipating some jobs would be scrapped as a result. "Any cuts in administration and diverting of dollars to rubber-meets-the-road efforts like public safety and teaching is important."

Though Boliek claimed that the policy was under consideration before anti-Israel protests reached a fever pitch at campuses across the country, Trustee Marty Kotis admitted that law enforcement needed more funding after the school saw the aftermath of demonstrations last month which resulted in several arrests.

"It’s important to consider the needs of all 30,000 students, not just 100 or so that may want to disrupt the university’s operations," Kotis told the newspaper. Especially not the 100 or so disrupters who seem to be supported by the Biden administration.

Monday’s special meeting came before the UNC Board of Governors, which oversees all 17 public universities in the state. They expect to vote statewide next week to determine whether to restrict all DEI programs, which should be a no-brainer. 

The board’s five-person Committee on University Governance already voted last month to reverse and replace a policy related to DEI, but the full board of 24 members must vote for the repeal to take effect. It is not known whether the 24 member board are products of DEI, but if they are, the schools are doomed to commit the same mistakes in hiring based on immutable characteristics rather than merit.

However, if the policy if totally repealed, the UNC system would join other major universities in getting rid of their racist diversity offices, and maybe white people and Asians would no longer be targets of academic discrimination.

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