Disagreements On Cost Of DEI

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah System of Higher Education and the State Legislature cannot agree on how much went towards Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs at universities across the state last year. The USHE says that a little more than three-million went towards DEI programs while a legislature analysts estimates the total at around eleven-million, respectively. Both amounts total to less than a half-percent of the state universities budgets. This comes as Governor Spencer Cox is looking at defunding programs and cutting staff claiming DEI is not effective enough. Programs would be replaced with general “student success programs.” Around 24 people may lose their jobs should this law pass.