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Faculty member urges clarification after Governors State University renames DEI office
Summary
An associate professor urged Governors State University trustees for transparency and explanation after the university renamed its diversity, equity and inclusion office to the Office of Institutional Engagement and Excellence and began removing DEI references from the website.
Rebecca Seifert, an associate professor of art history in the College of Arts and Sciences, used the board’s public-comment period to express “dissent and concerns” over the university’s recent renaming of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to the Office of Institutional Engagement and Excellence and the reported removal of references to diversity, equity and inclusion from the university website.
Seifert said the change came a…
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