Great news! The University of Mississippi has just announced it will be closing its DEI department, the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

The University’s DEI department has been the driving force behind “Pathways to Equity,” a five-year university wide strategic plan committed to equity and racial justice.

Everything under “Pathways to Equity” at the university – including curriculum content – has been increasingly managed through the prism of intersectional ideology.

According to public records requests that MCPP submitted, Ole Miss is still spending millions on its various DEI initiatives. The head of the Division of Diversity alone, Shawnboda Mead, is on a salary of $246,881 a year.

If Ole Miss really is going to dismantle the apparatus of woke ideology, great. I fear, however, that what we have here is merely a rebrand.

Chancellor Glenn Boyce, who made the announcement about the name change in an email, must surely sense that the political climate is changing. Alumni are increasingly reluctant to donate to what they perceive as ‘woke’ academics who despise their values.

Boyce seems to be trying to head off anti-DEI legislation.

Until now, Mississippi’s liberal Senate leadership has been........

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