{"id":3476,"date":"2023-06-15T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:25:36","slug":"speaker-vos-defends-proposed-university-of-wisconsin-dei-cuts-you-should-be-taught-not-indoctrinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Vos Defends Proposed University of Wisconsin DEI Cuts: \u2018You Should be Taught, Not Indoctrinated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don\u2019t look for Wisconsin Republicans to reverse course on their proposed diversity, equity and inclusion cuts at the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday defended his plan to cut $32 million from the UW System\u2019s budget if university leaders don\u2019t shift it away from DEI efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is really fairly simple, it is to say that if you are at UW System, on any of the campuses, you should be able to be taught. And you should be able to learn. It should not be indoctrination, where you\u2019re only allowed to have one point of view,\u201d Vos told reporters.<\/p>\n

Vos has pushed against the University of Wisconsin\u2019s DEI administrative force for the past month.<\/p>\n

Back in May, he said he wanted to find a better use for the $16 million that was spent last year on nearly 200 DEI administrators at the state\u2019s 23 UW campuses.<\/p>\n

He said that again on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tell me we don\u2019t have enough people to be in engineering. We don\u2019t have enough folks who are teaching an awful lot of careers. But. boy are they able to find millions of dollars to put into a curriculum and an ideology,\u201d Vos added.<\/p>\n

Gov. Tony Evers and top statehouse Democrats on Wednesday slammed Vos\u2019 proposed cuts. The governor called the idea \u201cdisastrous for our UW System, almost certainly causing cuts to campuses and critical programs statewide, and will only hurt our kids, our state\u2019s economy, and our state\u2019s workforce in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The top Democrat in the Wisconsin Senate, Minority Leader Melissa Agard, echoed the same theme.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublican actions to cut funding from the UW System for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives is small-minded, wrongheaded, and counterproductive to our state\u2019s efforts to recruit and retain our future workforce,\u201d Agard said in a statement of her own.<\/p>\n

But Vos<\/a> said the UW System chose to focus on DEI instead of the state\u2019s workforce needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave [the UW System] more than enough time to say \u2018Let\u2019s redouble our efforts, to take the money which is going into [DEI] any promote economic development, and careers that we know we need, and filling jobs that should be taught to kids in Wisconsin.\u2019 And they kind of ignored that,\u201d Vos added. \u201cSo, iIf they have extra money then I think it should be taken back, and the taxpayers of Wisconsin will have a chance to use it for something better than indoctrinating kids with left-wing ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican-controlled legislature was supposed to vote on the UW System\u2019s budget Tuesday night, but that vote was delayed because of the DEI spat.<\/p>\n

Vos did not say when lawmakers will try and vote on the university\u2019s budget again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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