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by Brandon Poulter<\/h5>\n

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The University of Wisconsin System accepted an $800 million deal with the state legislature on Wednesday that requires them to slash their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) departments, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The UW Board of Regents originally\u00a0voted<\/a>\u00a09-8 against a deal that would give the university system $800 million for new infrastructure and employee pay raises in exchange for freezing the total number of DEI positions in the system. The board later reversed the decision and voted 11-6 in favor of the deal, which also orders the system to stop requiring diversity statements on student applications and will require UW Madison to end a race-based hiring program,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad they approved the compromise tonight despite reported last-minute lobbying by Gov Evers to scuttle the deal. We finally have turned the corner and gotten real reforms enacted. Republicans know this is just the first step in what will be our continuing efforts to eliminate these cancerous DEI practices on UW campuses,\u201d Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (pictured above) said in a Wednesday statement<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

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“I’m glad they approved the compromise tonight despite reported last-minute lobbying by Gov Evers to scuttle the deal. We finally have turned the corner and gotten real reforms enacted. Republicans know this is just the first step in what will be our continuing efforts to\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robin Vos (@repvos) December 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"The deal will also require 43 DEI positions to be restructured to focus on \u201cstudent success,\u201d according to the AP. The freeze on diversity hiring will last through 2026.<\/p>\n

Three UW regents who originally opposed the deal, Amy Blumenfeld Bogost, Jennifer Station and Karen Walsh, voted in favor of it on Wednesday, saying that they had needed more time to consider the matter, the AP reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe very premise of this deal is a nonstarter,\u201d Angela Adams, who voted against the deal twice, said, according to the AP. \u201cI did not join this board to be thrust into political gamesmanship. Supporting DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) on campus is not something we should be exchanging, in my opinion, for dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wisconsin\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature\u00a0withheld<\/a>\u00a0pay raises for the UW System in October and\u00a0cut<\/a>\u00a0the system\u2019s budget by $32 million in June, which is the amount they estimated the system spends on DEI over a 2-year period. Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers\u00a0sued<\/a>\u00a0the legislature in November, claiming that Republicans were violating the state constitution and \u201cobstructing basic government functions\u201d by blocking raises.<\/p>\n

The UW Board of Regents did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Poulter is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
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