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Boise State highlights LAUNCH enrollment, DEI center reorganization and $1.5M legal defense cost
Summary
Boise State President Marlene Tromp told the JFAC committee Boise State has 1,300 LAUNCH enrollees, has restructured DEI-related centers to focus on student success, and spent about $1.5 million from non‑taxpayer funds to defend a lawsuit related to campus activity.
Boise State University President Marlene Tromp told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Jan. 29 that the university has 1,300 students enrolled in the state’s LAUNCH program, with roughly 600 students relying on LAUNCH as their only financial support. She said the program provides access to in-demand fields including nursing, computer science, radiologic sciences and engineering.
Tromp described a multi-year effort to transform student-support centers that had formerly been organized under diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) labels into a model focused on student success. She said that, in recent years, the university originally had approximately eight staff in related centers and that the university reported a reduction of five staff positions in the restructuring; Tromp said the…
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