‘A Drain On Resources’: DeSantis Announces War On College Diversity Funding And ‘Deadweight’ Professors

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced that the state of Florida would scrap diversity, equity, and inclusion funding from public universities and increase scrutiny toward underperforming professors.

DeSantis, who entered a second term as chief executive this month after a landslide re-election victory, recently asked public university administrators to provide a detailed account of expenditures related to DEI initiatives as members of the Florida legislature consider budget proposals. He revealed on Tuesday that his office would work to “eliminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida” such that the programs “wither on the vine.”

“It really serves as an ideological filter,” DeSantis said, noting the compelled speech and political pressure that emerges under the auspices of diversity programs. “We probably are the first state that’s actually leading by example, but I can tell you those bureaucracies are not representative of what the people of this state and the taxpayers of this state want.”