FCC OKs Verizon-Frontier Merger After Telco Backs Down on DEI | TV Tech
Agency required Verizon to eliminate its DEI efforts to gain approval for the $20 billion deal| TV Tech
Agency required Verizon to eliminate its DEI efforts to gain approval for the $20 billion deal| TV Tech
This May, pro-Palestine protesters disrupted a commencement ceremony at the College of Staten Island. A crowd of students chanted, “Palestine will be free.”| American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again| www.theregister.com
The National Endowment for the Arts has canceled its Challenge America grant program, which offered $10,000 grants to underserved communities.| Artforum
American colleges and universities are facing an unprecedented moment of adjustment. President Trump’s second term has brought sweeping higher education reforms—executive orders against “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) bureaucracies, stricter enforcement against campus anti-Semitism, new scrutiny of foreign funding, and heightened pressure on institutions that grant privileges to illegal aliens. We anticipated a spectrum of […]| Minding The Campus
A little-known legal loophole that opens the door to censoring dissidents and mob rule under the mask of DEI| tessa.substack.com
A defining characteristic of President Trump’s first five months has been his widespread use of Executive Orders (EOs). President Trump has issued four EOs with significant impact on employment discrimination law: two focus on the elimination of diversity, equity and … Read more| Coates’ Canons NC Local Government Law
Officials are attempting to guide faculty members through confusion over the future of federal research funding after President Donald Trump’s now-rescinded freeze of federal funds last week.| The GW Hatchet
It’s what we were concerned about and ultimately anticipated: The new administration has placed DEI programs squarely in its crosshairs. Within his first few days in office, President Trump swiftly moved to dismantle federal DEI initiatives, putting diversity officers on leave and implementing a series of measures aimed at curbing workplace diversity efforts. Perhaps the […]| Seramount
The Staff Council pressed Provost Chris Bracey and Chief Financial Officer Bruno Fernandes with questions about issues facing the University, like institutional neutrality, the Medical Faculty Associates, student visas and diversity, equity and inclusion, on Tuesday.| The GW Hatchet
The culture of our federal agencies needs to be reformed from top to bottom if we want to kill DEI for good.| TomKlingenstein.com
Health and research systems like Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia were among those affected by 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump’s funding cuts from the first two weeks of his second term.| www.thedp.com
Many federal employees need only a little exposure to something besides the groupthink they’ve been fed since their childhood.| The American Mind
White House officials grouped both orders under the Trump administration’s wider “restoring sanity” agenda.| NBC News
The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.| NBC News
NCSL’s State-Federal team is tracking the latest states-related executive orders, policies and memoranda issued by the Trump administration.| www.ncsl.org
All VUMC academic department and center websites were instructed to remove any references to diversity, equity and inclusion and associated phrases from their websites, per email correspondence to VUMC affiliates obtained by The Hustler. Additionally, Vanderbilt’s former Student Center for Social Justice and Identity has been renamed to the Student Center for Belonging and Communities.| The Vanderbilt Hustler - The official student newspaper of Vanderbilt University
Baker Donelson Law Firm is investigating whether a covert video reveals university employees renamed DEI programs to preserve them.| The Vanderbilt Hustler - The official student newspaper of Vanderbilt University
No federal administration has moved as swiftly to exert broad new controls over what people can say, read, learn, research, and think.| PEN America
Despite recent attacks on its theory and implementation, DEI provides organizations with many benefits, including better financial results, access to talent, innovation, and improved problem-solving.| CIO
Two key Trump priorities are causing major ripples in the corporate world.| Fortune
A look at what Trump’s AI plan could still get right—and what we can’t afford to get wrong.| Public Knowledge
The battle over higher education is the product of a century of constitutional overreach. Congress, presidents, and the Supreme Court expanded federal power over colleges and universities through a broad reading of the Spending Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause […]| Constitutional Discourse
Greear Webb hasn’t set foot in a Target or spent any money there in two months — a conscious departure from what was once his go-to retailer for affordable apparel and toiletries. The 24-year-old Emory Law School student and Midtown resident is one of an estimated 10,000 members of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in […] The post Target Boycott Phase Two: Organizers to Expand Movement This Weekend appeared first on Capital B News - Atlanta.| Yahoo News
Eine Durchführungsverordnung hat bisher in den Medien wenig Beachtung gefunden, macht aber den Geist der neuen US-Regierung unter der Führung ...| BIZEPS
Corporations and universities are distancing themselves from social virtue-signaling. But behind new branding, the grift is alive and well.| thedailyeconomy.org
President Trump's recent executive order 14151 rolls back on progress made by previous administrations.| The National Wildlife Federation Blog
More than 100 people gathered alongside Egan Drive in downtown Juneau to protest the Trump Administration’s cuts to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy and what they see as an attack on civil rights.| KTOO
In California, Black women are three times as likely as white women to die of pregnancy-related causes. Here's how maternal health initiatives in Santa Clara County, aimed at reducing racial disparities, are likely at risk amid federal budget cuts.| Healthbeat
The decision is limited to the plaintiffs, and could be used to further restore funding to transgender research and care.| www.erininthemorning.com
The loss of DEI-related health data impacts medical writers’ ability to create inclusive, accurate content. Learn about the challenges and solutions.| blog.amwa.org
The National Institutes of Health has canceled at least five GW research grants this month, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.| The GW Hatchet
Unternehmen sind meist stolz auf ihre Werte. Bietet sich aber die Chance auf ein einträgliches Geschäft, werden diese auch mal schnell beiseitegelegt. Das geht dann meist zulasten von Grundrechten. Was gegen diese harte Realität hilft? Mehr Riots.| netzpolitik.org
Karen Greenberg| Voces del Mundo
From the Executive Director This has been another month where we have watched the government illegally obliterate research, journalism, culture, art, and science — defunding the heart, mind, and souls of America. I have been on Zooms where filmmakers whose grants have been rescinded meet with field leaders and lawyers to strategize how to proceed....| The Alliance
Pastor Jamal Bryant has been instrumental in leading an economic protest against the retailer, which rolled back its DEI initiatives earlier this year.| Capital B News - Atlanta
President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office come with a flurry of executive orders posing concerns for marginalized communities.| The Observer
Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing."| TIME
The controversial new FCC Chair seems to be more interested in attacking diversity than serving the public interest.| Public Knowledge
Everyone is talking about Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne’s latest venture: the 4-part series, Adolescence, that hit Netflix screens on March 13th. And what a series it is. I’m not going to go too much…| CST Online
There's a gap between how the ed world sees what's happening and how the wider world does...| eduwonk.substack.com
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's investigation into the DEI programs at Comcast marks a significant reversal on decades-old telecoms policy.| Public Knowledge
In più: licenziamenti di massa e un colpo di stato in diretta Facebook.| www.tispiegoildato.it
People booed and jeered at U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman as he walked into the Algoma Town Hall just outside Oshkosh Friday morning.| WPR
A federally funded research program helped students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. DOGE’s sweeping Education Department cuts brought this and dozens of other studies to an abrupt halt.| Chalkbeat
Reflections on the current moment from SSP’s Board of Directors.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The White House’s enforcement threat against private-sector DEI programs is “textbook viewpoint-based discrimination,” according to the Feb. 21 decision.| HR Dive
And Why That Might Be a Good Thing For Progressive Causes| www.ian-leslie.com
The continued attacks on DEI are making the Digital Equity Act harder to follow.| Public Knowledge
The president’s disdain for disabled people—and obsession with genetic superiority—harks back to a grim past.| The Nation
Legal protections I had at the start of the year are now gone.| chrisdamian.substack.com
The Air Force has started shutting down diversity and inclusion (DEI) offices and boards to comply with an order from President Donald Trump.| Air & Space Forces Magazine
In his first two weeks in office, President Trump has taken several steps to significantly reduce the federal workforce and budget. These include issuing a series of day-one executive orders, firing scores of federal employees, and offering nearly 2 million government workers a buyout to resign before February 6.| Williams Institute
Affected programs include the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling and Recycling Education and Outreach grant programs. EPA employees fear reprisal if they speak to grantees, according to advocates.| Waste Dive
While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?”| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
As expected, President Donald Trump began his second term by issuing a slew of executive orders on Day One -- and he's issued several more since then.| HRMorning
Trump's executive order rescinds DEI programs and practices across all federal agencies. Here's how it affects your HR department and practices.| HRMorning
Despite the politics, DEI efforts are alive and well, now framed as business and leadership programs, not social justice initiatives.| JOSH BERSIN
What the New Orders Mean for a New Order| donmoynihan.substack.com
The new president has signed more than 100 directives that will alter the course of US policy. We look at how they will influence free expression in the “land of liberty”| Index on Censorship
Dear System Leaders and Service Providers,| National Alliance to End Homelessness
In his first week in office, President Trump has issued executive orders and taken other actions with significant implications for the legal community.| davidlat.substack.com
