How the Backlash Against DEI Has Impacted Colleges’ Diversity Efforts

For the past several years, The Chronicle has extensively covered the rapidly changing DEI landscape across higher education. Our DEI Legislation Tracker has kept readers up-to-speed on state and federal legislative proposals affecting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs on college campuses, while our Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI has documented the real life shifts in hundreds of campuses' programs, policies, and offices across the country.

Since 2025, those changes have accelerated. In an environment where public sentiment, legal policies, and campus actions can shift at a moment’s notice, we want to make sure our readers have the information and analysis they need to understand what’s happening and effectively serve their students and campus communities. 

Now, we’re bringing that reporting together for a deeper conversation. 

This October, join Chronicle reporters Jasper Smith and Daarel Burnette II for The State of DEI, the final premium webinar in our Higher Ed in Crisis series. This important conversation will explore where DEI in higher education stands today and where it may be headed next, drawing on The Chronicle’s extensive reporting and tracking.

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