UT Austin faculty members push back [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas – In this edition of Texas: The Issue Is, the issue is the DEI purge pushback.

Since January, when SB 17 took effect, college administrators all across Texas have been shutting down diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

In response to that, members of a faculty labor union rallied at the University of Texas here in Austin, calling on school leaders to stop the rollback.

FOX 7 Austin’s Rudy Koski spoke to two members about why they believe some form of DEI should remain on every campus.

PAULINE STRONG: I would like the university to restore the programs that were lost. I believe they were lost to please political forces in the state.

KARMA CHAVEZ: I never understood what people were saying about what was wrong with it, because all we’re trying to do is make a better campus for more students.

RUDY KOSKI: There are some programs that are viewed to be divisive, where …