Time's up for North Carolina's universities to reveal the extent of DEI programs

UNC schools are under fire for using race, sexuality, and politics instead of merit for admission to prestigious programs.

by: Sloan Rachmuth

UNC Medical School

Today is the deadline for 17 UNC System schools to submit internal documents related to Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programming to the General Assembly. Two weeks ago, the Joint Legislative Commission on Government Operations, led by Republicans Sen. Phil Berger and Rep. Tim Moore, requested the documents to evaluate how to make the schools more effective.

The inquiry comes on the heels of the UNC Board of Governors' approval of a “compelled speech policy” to prevent viewpoint discrimination in hiring.

Highlights from the document request:

• An inventory of all UNC System employee trainings related to DEI, including seminars offered by outside speakers and third parties.

• Costs of DEI programs

• Lists of books and copies of learning material used for DEI trainings

• Lists of participants and titles for those who attended DEI trainings

More from the request:

For purpose of this letter, “DEIA” includes, but is not limited to, those subject matters which reference or discuss “diversity”, “equity”, “inclusion”, “accessibility”, “racism”, “anti-racism”, “anti-racist”, “oppression”, “internalized oppression”, “systemic racism”, “sexism”, “gender”, “LGBTQ+”, “white supremacy”, “unconscious bias”, “bias”, “microaggressions”, “critical race theory”, “intersectionality”, or “social justice.”

The full letter from Eric Naisbitt, Assistant Vice President of State Government Relations at UNC is listed below this article.

UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz addressed the document request at Friday's Faculty Council meeting:

“We are not the only university in the country that is being asked to take an inventory of DEI, so we are not alone there” Guskiewicz said. “I want you to hear that we as a leadership team and you as a faculty are committed to this diverse community that makes us who we are and allows us to accomplish the great things I talked about earlier.”

During the meeting, Associate Director for the Cystic Fibrosis Center Dr. Jennifer Goralski pushed back against the policy barring compelled speech at UNC:

"The words that were chosen in the policy is very challenging for us and very scary for us as physicians," Goralski said. "Reproductive health is not a ‘contemporary political debate,’ and neither is transgender suicide – that is a health care problem,” she said. “Racial biases in medicine are a health care problem. It concerns me that making this policy so broad is going to serve as a slippery slope to narrow down what we are allowed to teach our trainees and future doctors.”

Dr. Jennifer Goralski UNC

Goralski went on to say that UNC is now being complicit in upholding "institutional racism" by agreeing not to discriminate against the political viewpoints of future medical school applicants and others. The policy is "terrifying and sickening.'"

Education First Alliance's Dr. Nancy Andersen and others have exposed UNC Medical School's dangerous dive into politics over science. Dr. Andersen, a graduate of UNC's general surgery program, exposed the pediatric department for pushing Transgenderism onto parents and patients.

Kenny Xu with Color Us United recently published material from the medical school revealing that it forced applicants, students, and professors to relentlessly showcase their commitment to DEI as a condition of hiring and promotion, rather than basing such decisions on merit and job performance.

This prompted a petition from UNC alumni and others who believe the school should be making admission, hiring, and promotion decisions based on expertise and job performance, not on a person's commitment to DEI.

Letter from General Assembly:

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Dr. Nancy Andersen and Education First Alliance president Sloan Rachmuth explained new developments in UNC's medical school DEI scandal: