After Gutting Affirmative Action, Republicans Target Minority Scholarships

[Rollie Forbes]

The GOP’s war on racially diverse college campuses was never going to be confined to the party’s war on affirmative action.

In fact, Republican efforts to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses, curb free speech around progressive causes and restrict classroom discussions on social inequality all limit higher education from becoming more amenable to students — particularly nonwhite students.

Now it appears Republicans are setting their sights on another tool used to foster campus diversity: minority scholarship programs.

On Thursday, the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly suggested he’ll move to ban grants designated for minority undergraduate students. The speaker, Robin Vos, responded to a tweet claiming a minority scholarship program designated for students who are Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or of Laotian, Vietnamese or Cambodian descent amounted to “discrimination.”

In his response, Vos seemed to embody the conservative fervor to block racial minority groups from higher education opportunities. His tweet came just hours after conservatives on the Supreme Court gutted affirmative action policies in college admissions, showing his eagerness to end minority scholarship programs. And he later retweeted a user who claimed Ivy League schools “hate rural whites,” suggesting his apparent push to end minority scholarships is thinly veiled white revanchism.

Vos has also been a vocal opponent of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, referring to such programs within the University of Wisconsin System as "indoctrination" despite a racist incident at the Madison campus making headlines in the spring. Although Wisconsin is operating with a projected $7 billion budget surplus, Vos and Republicans in the state Legislature voted to cut $32 million from the UW System's budget unless it agrees to use the funds for workforce development rather than DEI efforts. The GOP plan also seeks to cut nearly 200 DEI jobs on UW campuses.

Last week’s Supreme Court ruling gave conservatives the go-ahead to hack away at campus integration and diversification plans. And there’s no question many of them are happy to do just that.

https://www.msnbc.com/the .. nsin-rcna92426

 

[Rollie Forbes]

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[Akae Beka]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/next-steps-republicans-say-theyre-repealing-minority-targeted-scholarship-programs.983960/

 

[Rollie Forbes]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/next-steps-republicans-say-theyre-repealing-minority-targeted-scholarship-programs.983960/

I didn't see that thread. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

Jim Crow 2.0 incoming. Only a matter of time before they start pushing to bring back segregation. U already know they talking about that shyt behind closed doors.

I still see no reason to vote though. Supreme court still got 3 whole non klan conservative justices left, we just gotta hold out a little longer and those reparations on the table are in the bag. And in about 90 years we may just have enough liberals on the bench to challenge after this travesty of a SP deads that shyt on arrival

 

[get these nets]

131 college scholarships put on hold or modified due to Texas DEI ban, documents show

Memorial scholarships are among those affected as Texas universities work to comply with a new law banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

www.dallasnews.com

June 17, 2024

131 college scholarships put on hold or modified due to Texas DEI ban, documents show​

Memorial scholarships are among those affected as Texas universities strive to comply with a new law banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Photos of Texas A&M University at Commerce basketball players Aubree Butts, left, and Devin Oliver, were displayed at a June 4, 2014, candlelight vigil at the university. A scholarship fund named for the two students after they were killed in a car crash is on hold because of a state law banning diversity programs at public universities



For Richard Oliver, the night of June 3, 2014, was a parent’s worst nightmare.
His daughter Devin Oliver and her classmate Aubree Butts, players on the women’s basketball team at Texas A&M University at Commerce, were killed in a car crash in rural Paris, Texas.
Why This Story Matters
Texas colleges and universities are reviewing programs and in some cases closing offices to comply with a new state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs. Scholarships, an important element in helping students afford college, also have been affected, including several from private sources.
The community mourned and celebrated Oliver and Butts by creating a memorial scholarship.
“I appreciated the fact that that scholarship was targeted specifically for that demographic type — Black female athlete, and particularly basketball — because that’s who my daughter was,” Richard Oliver told The Dallas Morning News.


Now the Devin Oliver and Aubree Butts Memorial Scholarship — and 130 others across Texas — are frozen or being modified as the state’s 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.

The definition of DEI can be vague, but the law generally says colleges should not have programs designed for students of specific races or genders.

When SB 17 was debated at the Capitol, the focus was on shutting down diversity training and departments that oversee diversity initiatives. Scholarships were not significantly discussed by lawmakers

(Rest of the article in the link)
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The both sides/maga stuff said on this forum is generally just attention seeking contrarian shyt. But the ones who actually believe are dudes who don't have education, career, business or home ownership goals. Otherwise, they would know better.

Keep smilie-ing and repeating YTer nonsense, though.

 

[UpNext]

131 college scholarships put on hold or modified due to Texas DEI ban, documents show

Memorial scholarships are among those affected as Texas universities work to comply with a new law banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

www.dallasnews.com

June 17, 2024

131 college scholarships put on hold or modified due to Texas DEI ban, documents show​

Memorial scholarships are among those affected as Texas universities strive to comply with a new law banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Photos of Texas A&M University at Commerce basketball players Aubree Butts, left, and Devin Oliver, were displayed at a June 4, 2014, candlelight vigil at the university. A scholarship fund named for the two students after they were killed in a car crash is on hold because of a state law banning diversity programs at public universities



For Richard Oliver, the night of June 3, 2014, was a parent’s worst nightmare.
His daughter Devin Oliver and her classmate Aubree Butts, players on the women’s basketball team at Texas A&M University at Commerce, were killed in a car crash in rural Paris, Texas.
Why This Story Matters
Texas colleges and universities are reviewing programs and in some cases closing offices to comply with a new state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs. Scholarships, an important element in helping students afford college, also have been affected, including several from private sources.
The community mourned and celebrated Oliver and Butts by creating a memorial scholarship.
“I appreciated the fact that that scholarship was targeted specifically for that demographic type — Black female athlete, and particularly basketball — because that’s who my daughter was,” Richard Oliver told The Dallas Morning News.


Now the Devin Oliver and Aubree Butts Memorial Scholarship — and 130 others across Texas — are frozen or being modified as the state’s 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.

The definition of DEI can be vague, but the law generally says colleges should not have programs designed for students of specific races or genders.

When SB 17 was debated at the Capitol, the focus was on shutting down diversity training and departments that oversee diversity initiatives. Scholarships were not significantly discussed by lawmakers

(Rest of the article in the link)
==========================

The both sides/maga stuff said on this forum is generally just attention seeking contrarian shyt. But the ones who actually believe are dudes who don't have education, career, business or home ownership goals. Otherwise, they would know better.

Keep smilie-ing and repeating YTer nonsense, though.

All of these internet arguments including the ones you have and points you make are just that, internet arguments and internet talking points.


The reality is millions of black people show up and vote blue at the highest rates to merely combat issues like this and have loyally done so for the past 50+ years.

We're not even talking about making progress and pushing forward, because in reality it's clear that won't happen without a paradigm shift in the way we collectively practice our organization ability. Change for us has never historically came through a ballot (despite useful idiot arguments to the contrary), we're only talking maintaining right now. Since black politics is all defense and maintaining the gains we got in the 60s through organization and movement work (not a ballot).

IIRC Texas has the largest black population in the country by number and I'd wager the largest block of black democratic votes. If the people they put in can't even do the bare minimum in maintenance work the both sides argument starts to gain more ground. Reason being because in the best case scenario all y'all are doing is putting in charismatic useless idiots who are ineffective at doing their job and not people who are outright malicious and doing their job correctly.

At that point both sides do start to look the same and people will have to start collectively looking for solutions outside the political system. That's low key been what we should be doing but the economic system is grinding that spirit/energy away in 2024.