

Some college scholarships on hold or modified due to Texas DEI ban, documents show: Dallas News
More than 100 college scholarships in Texas are frozen or being modified as the stateās public universities implement a new state law that bans DEI programs at public universities.

His daughter Devin Oliver and her classmate Aubree Butts, players on the womenās basketball team at Texas A&M University at Commerce, were killed in a car crash in rural Paris, Texas. The community mourned and celebrated Oliver and Butts by creating a memorial scholarship.
āI appreciated the fact that that scholarship was targeted specifically for that demographic type ā Black female athlete, and particularly basketball ā because thatās who my daughter was,ā Richard Oliver told The Dallas Morning News.
Now the Devin Oliver and Aubree Butts Memorial Scholarship ā and 130 others across Texas ā are frozen or being modified as the stateās public universities implement a new state law, according to documents obtained by The News through open records requests. The affected scholarships comprise 80 at Texas A&M University institutions, 45 at University of Texas-affiliated campuses and six at three other public universities.
Known as Senate Bill 17 and authored by state Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, the law is a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs at public universities in Texas and went into effect Jan. 1.