SCOOP: University of Florida has created a radical DEI bureaucracy that promotes racial preferences in faculty hiring, encourages white employees to engage with a 12-step program called Racists Anonymous, and maintains segregated scholarships that violate civil rights law.

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Officially, the university has reported that it hosts 31 DEI initiatives at a cost of $5 million per year. But I have obtained internal documents via Sunshine Law requests revealing the stunning scope, scale, and radicalism of UF's DEI bureaucracy, which is embedded everywhere.

In 2020, UF planned out a huge number of diversity initiatives, including mandatory diversity training, an entire year focused on "racism," a presidential task force to explore the university's racist past, and recommendations for banning "historic racist imagery."

In 2021, the university moved to create a massive "DEI infrastructure" and deploy DEI cadres to each division, school, and college. The embedded cadres were tasked with administering loyalty surveys to test faculty and staff's "commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion."

According to documents, UF has created 1,018 "DEI initiatives" and the ideology has penetrated nearly all of its divisions: 73 percent "have a DEI committee" and "DEI officer"; 70 percent "espoused commitment to DEI"; 53 percent "have a DEI strategic plan."

The university encourages racial preferences in hiring, with favored practices including "specific formal training in [DEI]," advertising jobs through "DEI identity" groups, using an "equity specialist" for search committees, and engaging in race-based recruiting and benchmarks.

The HR department held a training to lecture employees about their "white privilege," "white fragility," and the "'unearned advantages' of whiteness." As part of their "personal journey," white employees were encouraged to confront their pathological whiteness.

They learned mantras from twelve-step programs for overcoming their whiteness, including Racists Anonymous: "I have come to admit that I am powerless over my addiction to racism"; "We admit our collective history is rooted in white supremacy."

The university also maintains and promotes a series of racially segregated scholarship programs that explicitly prohibit whites, and sometimes Asians, from applying. These programs are a flagrant violation of federal civil rights law.

Read the full story in City Journal:
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