Kansas releases $35.7M to schools that meet anti-DEI regulation
Kansas governor Laura Kelly and prime lawmakers voted Tuesday to allocate $35.7 million to public faculties and universities after the Kansas Board of Regents confirmed that every establishment had complied with the state’s new anti–range, fairness and inclusion regulation, which handed in April and took impact July 1, The Kansas Reflector reported.
The regulation forbids public establishments from making employment and admissions selections primarily based on DEI insurance policies, and the state Legislature determined to make distribution of college working grants contingent on compliance.
The regulation required universities to recalibrate personnel procedures and publish details about coaching and orientation packages to public web sites.
“Has every of the presidents of the schools licensed that they’ve carried out the duties which can be required?” Home Speaker Dan Hawkins, a Republican, requested the Board of Regents president, Blake Flanders, in a listening to Tuesday.
Flanders responded within the affirmative, noting that the College of Kansas and Kansas State, Wichita State and Emporia State Universities had all met the mandate. He added that a number of different universities didn’t have a DEI framework in place to start with.
