UNC Bans Non-Woke Students and Staff From Being Forced to Make Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statements

by By ANDREA CAVALLIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 02:32 EST, 26 February 2023 | UPDATED: 02:41 EST, 26 February 2023 02/27/2023

The University of North Carolina (UNC) has voted to ban students and staff from being forced to make diversity, equity and inclusion statements.

The decision was made at its Board of Governors meeting on Thursday.

It comes just days after another North Carolina school – N.C. State University – reversed a requirement asking applicants to answer an essay question affirming the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda.

The school started including the question in 2021 on applications saying the university is ‘committed to building a just and inclusive community’ and rejects ‘unjust or inhumane treatment’ and will denounce it ‘clearly and loudly.’

The applicant is then asked to write a 250-word essay describing ‘what those words mean to you and how you will contribute to a more diverse and inclusive environment.’

The University of North Carolina (UNC) has voted to ban students and staff from being forced to make diversity, equity and inclusion statements

Now, with the board’s decision, the university ‘shall neither solicit nor require an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment to affirmatively ascribe to or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles regarding matters of contemporary political debate or social action as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancement.’

The statement continued: ‘An employee or applicant also can’t ‘be solicited or required to describe his or her actions in support of, or in opposition to, such beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles.’

‘Practices prohibited here include but are not limited to solicitations or requirements for statements of commitment to particular views on matters of contemporary political debate or social action contained on applications or qualifications for admission or employment included as criteria for analysis of an employee’s career progression.’

Earlier this month, UNC announced that there would be a new Civic Life and Leadership School that a board member described as a way to ‘level’ the playing field for discourse on campus.

Earlier this month, UNC announced that there would be a new Civic Life and Leadership School that a board member described as a way to ‘level’ the playing field for discourse on campus

Christian Watson, a spokesperson for Color Us United, previously told DailyMail.com this is little more than an attempt to force doctors to become social activists and send the medical field toward politicization

Trustee Marty Kotis had said that ‘when one side is represented and the other side is suddenly allowed to speak up, it may seem like we’re taking aim – but really we’re just trying to create a level playing field,’ Fox News Digital reported. 

Color Us United, a group advocating for ‘race blind America’ has launched a campaign to stop the University of North Carolina’s medical school integrating social justice issues into its curriculum.

The non-profit that claims to fight for people who ‘are upset by government, corporate and media claims that America is a hateful country’.

Its most recent initiative is a bid to stop the UNC School of Medicine from implementing social justice into its teaching.

Kenny Xu, President of Color Us United, told Fox News Digital that he believes the move by UNC this week will have implications for higher education across the country.

‘We believe in a race blind, meritocratic society with high standards and that’s what has traditionally produced excellence in the United States,’ Xu told Fox News Digital.

‘When we saw wokeness and DEI infiltrating the medical profession, that’s when we became concerned because medicine is the one place where everybody knows, liberals, conservatives, independents, that you need the most qualified doctor to get the best outcome.’

‘When diversity, equity and inclusion says ‘No, you need doctors of a certain race’ or ‘No, we need to be teaching things from the lens of social justice rather than the biological practice of medicine,’ that’s when we got concerned,’ he added.

In a message about the school this month, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz said: ‘We are working to support a culture of respect, debate, and discovery. It won’t be easy and will often feel simply uncomfortable. Yet these are the skills our students, and we as citizens, need to be stewards of our democracy.’