DEI, big bull shark, Mark Kennedy: Down in Alabama [Video]

No more ‘DEI’

The three campuses in the University of Alabama System — The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Huntsville — are shutting down their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs per a new state law banning DEI offices, programming and training in public colleges, reports AL.com’s Alaina Bookman.

Earlier this summer, Jacksonville State closed its DEI office.

We don’t know to what degree the changes will mean a change in practices versus a change in nomenclature. A UA System spokesperson said no system-level staff had been let go. And as DEI offices closed, A Division of Opportunities, Connections and Success was opened in Tuscaloosa and an Office of Access and Engagement was opened at UAB. Both those programs are being led by the people who led the campuses’ respective DEI programs.

A hoss of a bull shark

Another shark record appears to have been broken during the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, reports AL.com’s …