If the State Board of Education and Idaho’s universities thought they could head off a debate over DEI, they were wrong.
Instead, some legislators seem determined to kill off diversity, equity and inclusion programs that are pretty much dead already.
Dead because, in December, the State Board ordered the colleges and universities to shut down any student centers “based on DEI ideology.” The State Board set a June 30 deadline that is all but moot, because Boise State University and Idaho State University scrambled to shut down student centers ahead of the State Board vote, and the University of Idaho hastily announced a shutdown plan hours after the vote…