Death to DEI: Practical Advice to Higher Education Leaders During the Rollback

Woods Rogers Principal Patice Holland advises higher education leaders in a University Business article on ensuring compliance with all federal anti-discrimination and state laws following President Trump’s efforts to eradicate DEI initiatives.

“President Trump’s slew of executive orders, purposed and designed to eradicate such initiatives, have left many higher institution leaders scrambling to determine what, if anything, they are required to do to comply with these EOs as millions in funding may be in jeopardy,” Patice writes. “Should you cancel all DEI-related programming? Scrub your website of any content and eliminate related policies? Terminate your chief diversity officer? Challenge and resist the EOs? Or wait and do nothing?”

Patice provides an overview of the Executive Orders for colleges and universities related to DEI and proposes practical tips for navigating these murky DEI waters.

Read her column in University Business.