Florida Governor Signs Legislation To Defund DEI Programs At State Universities

DeSantis said the DEI programs could be better viewed as "discrimination, exclusion, and indoctrination, and has no place in our public institutions."

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation to defund ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ programs at all state universities.

DeSantis said the DEI programs could be better viewed as “discrimination, exclusion, and indoctrination, and has no place in our public institutions.”

DeSantis continued to share that the state’s tax dollars could be used to focus on the mission of what a university is supposed to be versus funding programs that he views as a “distraction from the core mission.”

The Florida Governor argued that the defunding aims to “reorient universities back to their traditional mission to treat people as individuals” versus trying to divvy them up based on any type of “superficial characteristics.”