The UNC System Board of Governors’ University Governance committee
approved a policy that repeals the university system’s existing policy and regulation on diversity and inclusion, which require each of the state’s 17 public campuses to
employ diversity officers and work toward achieving diversity-related goals, among other requirements.
The committee passed the policy unanimously and with no discussion. The open-session portion of the meeting lasted about five minutes.
The new policy would eliminate those jobs — or, if a university wishes to keep the positions, it would be forced to remove the job’s ties to diversity. Campus centers dedicated to diversity would also likely be eliminated, though the policy allows universities to “implement programming or services designed to have a positive effect on the academic performance, retention, or graduation of students from different backgrounds.”