University of Florida fires all DEI staff

Published March 1, 2024 3:43pm ET



The University of Florida has fired all staff related to its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

University officials announced Friday that the school has closed down its “Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors” in order to comply with a regulation banning expenditures for the ideology across Florida’s public universities.

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