The layoffs were prompted by a diversity, equity, and inclusion ban that went into effect in January.
Ilana Panich-Linsman / The Washington Post via Getty Images, Texas NAACP and the Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors said that none of the staff who were fired currently work in DEI. Thethat the organizations see the layoffs as “potential attacks on First Amendment freedoms” and as clear retaliation that shows that “racial and ethnic discrimination was the clear purpose of this action.
“I can’t help but see this as a purge of any staff who have training in DEI — literally like a McCarthy-era purge — because none of the staff who’ve been fired have any DEI in their portfolio right now,”, the chair of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. “All they had is a history of being in a DEI-related position.”, mandated the closure of DEI offices on public university campuses, prohibited compulsory diversity training and limited hiring departments from requesting diversity statements.
“It’s going to fall into the hands of professors who come from marginalized backgrounds — so faculty of color, queer faculty, trans faculty, first gen faculty, immigrant faculty,”. “Those faculty who are already marginalized on this campus who already do a disproportionate amount of unseen and uncredited service, they will now be overburdened by this as well.”or more, appear to be spurred by a recent letter from State Sen. Brandon Creighton to university leaders.
“I have 100% confidence that my department — and Black Studies, and Gender and Women Studies, and Native American/Indigenous Studies and Asian American Studies — that we are next on the chopping block,”. “I have no doubt that the ultimate goal is to get rid of all of us who are doing any kind of work that reflects people who do not come from a predominantly white, middle class, heterosexual, Christian background.
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