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"content": "\u003cp>Faculty and students at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State rallied on Thursday as part of a national day of action “to defend higher education,” amid the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The faculty-organized demonstrations come as the Trump administration, which has already slashed billions of dollars in federal funding for academic research programs across the country, threatens to withhold billions more from some of the nation’s top universities that refuse to comply with its political agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came together because we felt like the administration needed both to be pressured and encouraged and supported … to stand up for the ongoing need for academic freedom,” Leslie Salzinger, chair of UC Berkeley’s Gender and Women’s Studies department, told KQED, as she stood among hundreds of colleagues and students at Sproul Plaza for the midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means the freedom to speak, to teach, to learn and to do research … without fear of reprisals,” said Salzinger, who helped organize Thursday’s action. “So our goal is to continue making sure that that’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has not yet directly threatened to withhold federal funding from the University of California system, as it has with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Harvard\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5327573/columbia-university-students-react-to-white-house-crackdown-on-protesters\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5327573/columbia-university-students-react-to-white-house-crackdown-on-protesters\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Columbia\u003c/a> and a growing number of other prestigious universities around the country. Unlike Columbia, Harvard rejected the administration’s demands to overhaul its hiring, admissions and curriculum policies, walking away from $2.2 billion in federal funding — with the Internal Revenue Service now reportedly considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">revoking the university’s tax-exempt status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University students, faculty, and staff rally at Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">currently investigating claims\u003c/a> of antisemitism at at least 17 colleges in the state — including UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salzinger thinks it won’t be long until UC Berkeley also finds itself at risk of losing its federal funding, and said this rally is intended to pressure university officials to strengthen their resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there are many people who are frightened, especially for our many non-citizen colleagues and students,” she said, referring to the administration’s ongoing efforts to revoke the visas of immigrant students across the country who have participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241211-SFStateFacultyLosingJobs-13-BL-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many things [the UC Berkeley administration] could do better. Like, they should commit to funding students that get their visas revoked,” she said. “But I feel like they’re going in the right direction. So we just want them to keep that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley English professor Poulomi Saha said they have already self-censored some of their teachings as a result of the Trump administration’s actions, and attended Thursday’s rally to form a united front against its onslaught of attacks on higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saha had recently been preparing a classroom presentation that referenced the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but ended up deleting the slides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time in my career, I stopped not just because I was worried about my students’ experience or discomfort around the material, but because I was worried about the surveillance of the federal government on what I do and teach,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, at San Francisco State University, about 100 faculty and students gathered for a teach-in and demonstration on the campus’ Malcolm X Plaza. Part of the same day of action, the rally centered on recent state funding cuts to the university and other California State University schools, which have gutted various programs and departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University students, faculty, and staff rally at Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An SF State spokesperson said the school would likely have to make \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/110863/campus/sfsu-braces-for-budget-cuts-plans-for-less-severe-impact/\">nearly $25 million in reductions\u003c/a> next year due to declining enrollment and the prospect of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/02/cal-state-budget-3/\">nearly 8% cut to the CSU budget\u003c/a> — roughly $375 million — if state lawmakers approve Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many things [the UC Berkeley administration] could do better. Like, they should commit to funding students that get their visas revoked,” she said. “But I feel like they’re going in the right direction. So we just want them to keep that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley English professor Poulomi Saha said they have already self-censored some of their teachings as a result of the Trump administration’s actions, and attended Thursday’s rally to form a united front against its onslaught of attacks on higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saha had recently been preparing a classroom presentation that referenced the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but ended up deleting the slides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time in my career, I stopped not just because I was worried about my students’ experience or discomfort around the material, but because I was worried about the surveillance of the federal government on what I do and teach,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, at San Francisco State University, about 100 faculty and students gathered for a teach-in and demonstration on the campus’ Malcolm X Plaza. Part of the same day of action, the rally centered on recent state funding cuts to the university and other California State University schools, which have gutted various programs and departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University students, faculty, and staff rally at Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An SF State spokesperson said the school would likely have to make \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/110863/campus/sfsu-braces-for-budget-cuts-plans-for-less-severe-impact/\">nearly $25 million in reductions\u003c/a> next year due to declining enrollment and the prospect of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/02/cal-state-budget-3/\">nearly 8% cut to the CSU budget\u003c/a> — roughly $375 million — if state lawmakers approve Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes on top of previous budget cuts that have forced SFSU to cancel classes and sports programs, and “lay off nearly all faculty on year-to-year contracts,” the school said in a statement this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Connolly, who attended Thursday’s rally, counts himself among the casualties of those cuts. A Humanities Department lecturer at SF State for 17 years, Connolly said his position was eliminated last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was gutting. I mean, it was like losing a friend. It was like a death,” he said. “We were just told that we were no longer needed and that was it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connolly said he’s distressed that government officials, on both the federal and state levels, simply aren’t prioritizing funding for public education institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They think it’s too expensive,” he said. “And it’s immensely damaging to everybody. Not just to those who lose their jobs, not just to the students … but to the nation as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Sanchez, an SF State communications student who also attended Thursday’s rally, said budget cuts have reduced course offerings and prevented her from being able to take the classes she needs to graduate — delaying her graduation by a semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had the rug pulled out from under me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Nisa Khan and Sara Hossaini contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>People applying for grants and certificates using the Small Business Administration’s website used to see a photograph of a group of people of varying ages, genders, and skin tones smiling in front of a white board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-February, the SBA removed the image from its website, documents shared with NPR show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2385\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg 2385w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-800x221.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1020x282.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1536x425.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-2048x567.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1920x531.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2385px) 100vw, 2385px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person with knowledge of the SBA’s website update said the minor task of removing the photo was strangely urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone says stop everything, do this specifically … it’s reserved for just instances where there’s like a system failure” said the person, who requested anonymity to share internal documentation fearing reprisal. “To have an immediate deployment of … a visual change is very, very uncommon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SBA did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community from their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In at least one instance, NPR’s reporting shows that the Department of Veterans Affairs is aware that removing categories of people from the agency’s website can affect the delivery of the services it provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies say the removals are to comply with President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/\">executive\u003c/a> orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/\">removing\u003c/a> “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies.” The removals aren’t universal, and sometimes pages are restored as agencies figure out what compliance means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender and non-binary people, on the other hand, are explicitly targeted by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">separate executive order\u003c/a> and faced the most consistent removal from government websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historians warn that this kind of systematic erasure has in the past come when governments strip rights from people, starting from the most marginalized groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you erase the memory, we really forget the people,” said Alessio Ponzio, whose research focuses on LGBTQ history and women’s studies and is a visiting professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. “It’s an act of violence that is very subtle but can really destroy the psychology of people. Basically, ‘I’m telling you that I do not recognize you.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Women,’ ‘girls,’ people of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant children, children with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQ+” were removed from a 2022 letter from the Biden administration to governors about supporting school-based health services in late January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032085\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1818\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg 1818w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-800x304.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1020x387.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-160x61.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1536x583.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1818px) 100vw, 1818px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department instructed its staff to not mention a list of terms and phrases including “women” and “girls” when trying to attract international students to come to study in the US, though the agency later rescinded the direction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5316196/state-dept-staffers-get-mixed-messages-on-how-to-serve-international-students\">NPR reported\u003c/a> recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1775\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg 1775w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-800x338.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1020x431.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-160x68.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1536x649.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1775px) 100vw, 1775px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Defense Department issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4079501/pentagon-releases-digital-content-refresh-memorandum/\">Feb. 26 memo\u003c/a> instructing the military to remove digital content that “focus on immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity or sex” by early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arlington National Cemetery \u003ca href=\"https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/us-army-deletes-lesson-plans-focusing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed its education programs\u003c/a> about the history of women and people of color in the armed services though some biographies remain available on its site. The Army and the Navy removed web pages about the history of women in the military and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304210520/https://www.army.mil/asianpacificamericans/442.html\">ones\u003c/a> about a decorated Japanese-American Army unit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii\">pages\u003c/a> about Navajo Code Talkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A page celebrating the military service of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who integrated major league baseball, has also been taken down. The Air Force took down, among other pages, a \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304141713/https://www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1984981/making-history-ten-women-make-up-elite-small-cadre-of-b-2-pilots/\">2019 profile\u003c/a> of the 10 women who piloted one specific stealth bomber that carried out important missions. The archived profile shows that at that point, the 10 women made up about 2% of all the pilots who flew the aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the pages about the Japanese-American unit and the Code Talkers have since been restored after their removal received attention and media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pentagon marked tens of thousands photographs for removal, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported. Some were of war heroes, many photos feature women and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1165\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-800x463.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1165px) 100vw, 1165px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration has hung a sign outside the armed forces saying if you’re not a white male, you are no longer welcome,” said Sue Fulton, senior advisor to advocacy group SPARTA Pride and formerly an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s a tragedy because it’s going to make our military weaker,” says Fulton. “It’s not just about getting rid of trans people and gay people and women and black folks. It’s about getting rid of leaders. It’s about disrupting units, taking people out of those units who are fully trained and fully qualified and replacing them with who? People who pass Trump’s ideological test?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespersons from the military branches say they’re complying with the memo and executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Navy continues to execute and implement all directives issued by the President with professionalism, efficiency, and in full alignment with national security,” said Navy spokesperson, Lieutenant Commander Lauren Chatmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media posts were removed, archived, or changed to avoid noncompliance with executive orders,” said Army spokesperson Major Travis Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Force did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agencies respond differently to Trump orders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s no comprehensive analysis on how much content each agency has removed, each agency seems to be going about it their own way. NASA asked its staff to scrub “anything specifically targeting women” off of its website in late January, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/\">404 Media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the directive, some articles featuring women went dark, including one about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/\">Rose Ferreira\u003c/a>, who was born in the Dominican Republic and was featured when she was an intern at NASA. The incident prompted \u003ca href=\"https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attacks-on-science\">a public outcry\u003c/a>, and Ferreira’s page, along with some others, were restored. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/\">Internet Archive records\u003c/a>, her profile went dark at least on Feb. 7 before it went back up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ferreira said the restoration of the feature invited more harassment. “I started getting messages from people, who I guess were late to the conversation, calling me a liar, or saying that I was attacking NASA and that I was trying to cause drama,” she told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferreira said that she was proud when NASA profiled her – but she now resents how her story was subject to the whims of a changed administration. “I didn’t ask for it [the feature]. You didn’t give it to me. I earned it … If it’s so easily removable, then what was the point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, NASA said the agency is “looking at content that was previously removed out of an abundance of caution and restoring content as appropriate,” as it complies with executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historical articles on agency websites have also been edited as a result of the executive orders. The National Park Service removed references to transgender people from an article by historian Wendy Rouse titled “The Very Queer History of the Suffragist Movement” as part of the agency’s commemoration of the movement. When Rouse requested that the original version of her article be restored, the Park Service took it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1758\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426.jpg 1758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-1536x1036.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we initially attempted to edit your article in an attempt to keep the rest of the content active, we have since removed it so as not to alter your work,” the agency wrote to Rouse, in an email Rouse shared with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, DC in a 2024 file photo. \u003ccite>(Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transgender people are the biggest targets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rolling back societal recognition of transgender people was a key part of President Trump’s campaign platform that was quickly expressed as a series of executive orders after he took office. Many agencies have removed references to transgender people, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01/31/cdc-website-gender-lgbtq-data/\">Centers for Disease Control\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318767/nps-lgbtq-transgender-history\">National Park Service\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/government-agencies-scrub-lgbtq-web-pages-remove-info-trans-intersex-p-rcna190519\"> the State Department\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/trumps-administration-is-taking-down-sites-about-gender-identity-all-over-the-internet/\">Social Security Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1762\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261.jpg 1762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-800x684.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-1020x872.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-1536x1313.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1762px) 100vw, 1762px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health and Human Services effort to remove references to transgender people from its websites, including the CDC’s, was halted by a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293387/judge-orders-cdc-fda-hhs-websites-restored\"> court order\u003c/a>. The removal of transgender people from the Park Service’s website introducing the Stonewall monument has led to protests at the monument itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s actions targeting transgender people follow a drumbeat of misleading content about transgender people spread by far-right activists in recent years. Those narratives focused on unsubstantiated threats of sex crime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1253921751/introducing-tested-from-npr-and-cbc\">concerns about fairness in women’s sports\u003c/a> and healthcare for minors with gender dysphoria diagnoses, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119634878/childrens-hospitals-are-the-latest-target-of-anti-lgbtq-harassment\">conservative influencers\u003c/a> used transgender issues to garner money, fame and support for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time transgender people became a target of governments, historians say. They were one of the groups that were persecuted early alongside suspected communists and Jews by Nazi Germany, said Laurie Marhoefer, a specialist on the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany at the University of Washington who also studies transgender and queer history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people are the canary in the coal mine of democracy,” said Marhoefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are instances in which these efforts could have serious consequences for people the government is supposed to serve. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide prevention strategy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25558024-1160-07-d-2021-05-24/\">mandates (DOC)\u003c/a> community outreach to veterans vulnerable to suicide, including transgender veterans, whom the department now declines to name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s own \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774495\">research\u003c/a> shows that LGBTQ veterans are more likely than the average veteran to take their own lives, and \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33544021/\">transgender veterans\u003c/a> even more so. Veterans already have a higher average suicide rate than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an internal memo that NPR obtained dated Feb. 20, the Department of Veterans Affairs proposed editing all external communication, which includes its website, to remove the term “gender” and only use “sex,” as well as taking out the letter “T” from the term “LGBTQ+ Care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also included an analysis of risks of the proposals, which includes “potential to impact Veteran access to care of Veteran perception of welcome at HVA facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the department says it will \u003ca href=\"https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-to-phase-out-treatment-for-gender-dysphoria/\">deny gender-affirming\u003c/a> treatment to new patients altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin and Greg Myre contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have a tip? NPR’s Huo Jingnan can be contacted through encrypted communications at _J_H.07 on Signal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>People applying for grants and certificates using the Small Business Administration’s website used to see a photograph of a group of people of varying ages, genders, and skin tones smiling in front of a white board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-February, the SBA removed the image from its website, documents shared with NPR show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2385\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg 2385w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-800x221.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1020x282.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1536x425.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-2048x567.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1920x531.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2385px) 100vw, 2385px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person with knowledge of the SBA’s website update said the minor task of removing the photo was strangely urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone says stop everything, do this specifically … it’s reserved for just instances where there’s like a system failure” said the person, who requested anonymity to share internal documentation fearing reprisal. “To have an immediate deployment of … a visual change is very, very uncommon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SBA did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community from their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In at least one instance, NPR’s reporting shows that the Department of Veterans Affairs is aware that removing categories of people from the agency’s website can affect the delivery of the services it provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies say the removals are to comply with President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/\">executive\u003c/a> orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/\">removing\u003c/a> “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies.” The removals aren’t universal, and sometimes pages are restored as agencies figure out what compliance means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender and non-binary people, on the other hand, are explicitly targeted by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">separate executive order\u003c/a> and faced the most consistent removal from government websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historians warn that this kind of systematic erasure has in the past come when governments strip rights from people, starting from the most marginalized groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you erase the memory, we really forget the people,” said Alessio Ponzio, whose research focuses on LGBTQ history and women’s studies and is a visiting professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. “It’s an act of violence that is very subtle but can really destroy the psychology of people. Basically, ‘I’m telling you that I do not recognize you.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Women,’ ‘girls,’ people of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant children, children with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQ+” were removed from a 2022 letter from the Biden administration to governors about supporting school-based health services in late January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032085\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1818\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg 1818w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-800x304.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1020x387.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-160x61.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1536x583.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1818px) 100vw, 1818px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department instructed its staff to not mention a list of terms and phrases including “women” and “girls” when trying to attract international students to come to study in the US, though the agency later rescinded the direction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5316196/state-dept-staffers-get-mixed-messages-on-how-to-serve-international-students\">NPR reported\u003c/a> recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1775\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg 1775w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-800x338.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1020x431.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-160x68.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1536x649.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1775px) 100vw, 1775px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Defense Department issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4079501/pentagon-releases-digital-content-refresh-memorandum/\">Feb. 26 memo\u003c/a> instructing the military to remove digital content that “focus on immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity or sex” by early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arlington National Cemetery \u003ca href=\"https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/us-army-deletes-lesson-plans-focusing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed its education programs\u003c/a> about the history of women and people of color in the armed services though some biographies remain available on its site. The Army and the Navy removed web pages about the history of women in the military and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304210520/https://www.army.mil/asianpacificamericans/442.html\">ones\u003c/a> about a decorated Japanese-American Army unit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii\">pages\u003c/a> about Navajo Code Talkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A page celebrating the military service of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who integrated major league baseball, has also been taken down. The Air Force took down, among other pages, a \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304141713/https://www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1984981/making-history-ten-women-make-up-elite-small-cadre-of-b-2-pilots/\">2019 profile\u003c/a> of the 10 women who piloted one specific stealth bomber that carried out important missions. The archived profile shows that at that point, the 10 women made up about 2% of all the pilots who flew the aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the pages about the Japanese-American unit and the Code Talkers have since been restored after their removal received attention and media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pentagon marked tens of thousands photographs for removal, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported. Some were of war heroes, many photos feature women and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1165\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-800x463.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1165px) 100vw, 1165px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration has hung a sign outside the armed forces saying if you’re not a white male, you are no longer welcome,” said Sue Fulton, senior advisor to advocacy group SPARTA Pride and formerly an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s a tragedy because it’s going to make our military weaker,” says Fulton. “It’s not just about getting rid of trans people and gay people and women and black folks. It’s about getting rid of leaders. It’s about disrupting units, taking people out of those units who are fully trained and fully qualified and replacing them with who? People who pass Trump’s ideological test?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespersons from the military branches say they’re complying with the memo and executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Navy continues to execute and implement all directives issued by the President with professionalism, efficiency, and in full alignment with national security,” said Navy spokesperson, Lieutenant Commander Lauren Chatmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media posts were removed, archived, or changed to avoid noncompliance with executive orders,” said Army spokesperson Major Travis Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Force did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agencies respond differently to Trump orders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s no comprehensive analysis on how much content each agency has removed, each agency seems to be going about it their own way. NASA asked its staff to scrub “anything specifically targeting women” off of its website in late January, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/\">404 Media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the directive, some articles featuring women went dark, including one about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/\">Rose Ferreira\u003c/a>, who was born in the Dominican Republic and was featured when she was an intern at NASA. The incident prompted \u003ca href=\"https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attacks-on-science\">a public outcry\u003c/a>, and Ferreira’s page, along with some others, were restored. 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The removal of transgender people from the Park Service’s website introducing the Stonewall monument has led to protests at the monument itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s actions targeting transgender people follow a drumbeat of misleading content about transgender people spread by far-right activists in recent years. Those narratives focused on unsubstantiated threats of sex crime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1253921751/introducing-tested-from-npr-and-cbc\">concerns about fairness in women’s sports\u003c/a> and healthcare for minors with gender dysphoria diagnoses, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119634878/childrens-hospitals-are-the-latest-target-of-anti-lgbtq-harassment\">conservative influencers\u003c/a> used transgender issues to garner money, fame and support for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time transgender people became a target of governments, historians say. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other universities were similarly concerned after the policy was announced. The University of California, which received over $2 billion in contract and grant funding last year, said the change to indirect cost reimbursements could result in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the possible loss of federal funding is not the only issue facing major private universities. A stepped-up endowment tax would be a major hit for Stanford, which has the third-largest endowment of any school in the United States at $37.6 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current tax rate on university endowments is 1.4% for private schools with at least 500 students, but some Republican members of Congress are pushing to increase the tax rate. A bill introduced by Rep. Troy Nehls (R–Texas) would raise the endowment tax rate to 21%. Another one forwarded by Rep. Mike Lawler (R–New York) would bring it up to 10% but would lower the threshold to include more schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s endowment pays for two-thirds of its budget for undergraduate and graduate financial aid. It also funds faculty salaries, research initiatives and other programs such as libraries and student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other schools are also announcing hiring freezes in response to recent threats to funding. While a spokesperson for UC Berkeley said he is not aware of any discussions about a possible hiring freeze there, other UC campuses, including UC San Diego, have also paused hiring for staff and faculty positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The order also calls on the attorney general and the secretary of education to provide universities with guidance on how to comply with the regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophie Walton, a graduate student who is involved in DEI initiatives on campus, said Stanford’s announcement has resulted in a lot of confusion and anxiety in students. Walton said some of her peers are worried about federal funding cuts and whether their programs or research could be jeopardized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton said she doesn’t know why Stanford decided to make a statement so soon. 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Students of color and women still face barriers to success at Stanford, and programs that foster inclusive environments are critical to combatting those obstacles, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton, who works with the graduate student union to address issues of discrimination, said programs that uphold DEI practices make the campus environment more welcoming and safe for everyone. She said some of these practices include providing students and faculty with recourse in the case of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other policies are more geared toward ensuring that every student has the opportunity to excel in the field of their choice regardless of background, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024188 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s language often focuses on meritocracy, this magical vision of meritocracy, and that is often coded for racism and misogyny,” Walton continued. “It’s the opposite of meritocracy when you eliminate DEI programs. … The point of many of these programs is to make sure that people are able to experience Stanford to the full extent of their abilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the initiative that Walton is involved in has not yet been affected by the order, she said the possibility is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has not made any official statements on which programs will be under consideration, but a review group is being convened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is not meant to be a small ship tacking wildly because of the changes in the political winds,” Levin said during the Faculty Senate meeting. “The university has an enduring purpose to foster knowledge and to educate students, and that purpose is not fundamentally political. 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The chief, her fire department and the city government quickly became targets in right-wing media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you focus your government on diversity, equity, inclusion, LGBTQ pet projects, and you are captured by environmentalists, we have been warning for years that you are worried about abstractions, but you can’t do the basic stuff,” Charlie Kirk, founder of the Trump-aligned nonprofit Turning Point USA, said on his podcast this week. He’s one of many critics amplifying what’s become a common refrain on the right when all kinds of disasters and tragic events hit, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/utah-lawmaker-blames-diversity-baltimore-bridge-collapse-rcna145261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore bridge collapse \u003c/a>last March and the Secret Service’s performance during the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-assassination-attempt-secret-service-dei-women-law-enforcement-7cacbc33b23b95a3ae263efae22a1117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempted assassination\u003c/a> of now President-elect Donald Trump over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/business/elon-musk-rips-boeing-they-prioritized-dei-over-safety/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plane panel detached mid-flight on a Boeing aircraft\u003c/a> last year, Fox News host Laura Ingraham said, “We can’t link the diversity efforts to what happened — that would take an exhaustive investigation, but it’s worth asking at this point, is excellence what we need in airline operations or is diversity the goal here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commentary on leading, national news stories is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/01/1228373511/heres-why-conspiracy-theories-about-taylor-swift-and-the-super-bowl-are-spreadin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tried and true\u003c/a> way for partisan media figures to drive engagement online. But stoking anger about diversity efforts in particular is also shorthand for a much larger story, said Ian Haney López, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author “Dog Whistle Politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story is something like this: We as a society used to hire on the basis of competence and meritocracy. But that system has been hijacked by powerful minorities,” he told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Again and again, we see these efforts to trigger people’s latent resentments against groups that historically have been socially marginalized, socially reviled in terms that do not embrace a blatant direct bigotry, but that instead seek to clothe themselves in some form of neutrality or even a commitment to fairness or excellence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of the aftermath of wildfires that destroyed a neighborhood.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011713683937-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks down a street in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(John Locher via the Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s the definition of a dog whistle, said Haney López, and it’s been happening in various forms since at least the end of the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the impact of DEI policies on putting out wildfires, “I give it only slightly more credibility than the Jewish space laser theories,” said Mike Beasley, who heads the board of \u003ca href=\"https://fusee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology\u003c/a>. In 40 years of firefighting, he says he has watched wildfires become more extreme and “meaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no number of people that will stop all the fires in the middle of a hot, dry season with the climate charged fuel aridity. There just isn’t,” said Beasley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5252535/palisades-fire-california-los-angeles-santa-ana-winds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Ana winds\u003c/a> happening, it’s just about getting people out of the way. It’s not really about putting the fire out until the winds calm down.” [aside postID=\"news_12021720,news_12021740,news_12021661\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley says there are many legitimate discussions these fires should raise about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/30/1196637141/climate-change-makes-wildfires-in-california-more-explosive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change\u003c/a>, firefighting budgets, water management, housing development, insurance and outdated infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No fire agency is going to sacrifice training and fundamental fire control and fundamental operations at the expense of DEI training,” said Beasley, who said diverse teams are better at tackling complex challenges, working under pressure and fostering community trust during emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The backlash against DEI programs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The day-to-day work of helping make workplaces less discriminatory is incredibly mundane, according to Lily Zheng, who’s been a DEI consultant for about 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something that’s often lost in these conversations is that DEI practitioners themselves have actually been critiquing DEI from within for decades,” said Zheng. “We’ve called attention to the 30 minute lunch-and-learns that aren’t going to solve racism overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Minneapolis police sparked a national reckoning on race that led many public, private and educational institutions to launch new efforts to make their environments less discriminatory and more inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zheng said they’ve seen waves of rising and falling support for DEI over the years, but backlash has picked up since around 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of this toxic discourse has been a chilling effect on people’s ability to talk about DEI and to communicate their commitment to it,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/trump-dei-initiatives-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crack down on diversity programs\u003c/a>, including at universities. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-dei-woke-trump-fe549f21b223ea9aa2a9f443470c593e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Several states\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1176210007/florida-ron-desantis-dei-ban-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida\u003c/a>, Texas, Alabama and Iowa, have already banned DEI offices in their public universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta\u003c/a> and McDonald’s joined a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/anti-dei-program-effort-2025-states-companies-universities-trump-rcna184580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing list of companies\u003c/a> including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/walmart-dei-inclusion-diversity-34b06922e60e5116fe198696201ce4d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walmart\u003c/a>, Ford, Lowe’s and Toyota, that are scaling back their DEI initiatives. The change at McDonald’s – which will \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2025/01/08/mcdonalds-joins-the-stampede-of-corporations-retreating-from-dei/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emphasize “inclusion” instead\u003c/a> – came just days after the fast food company was \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/06/mcdonalds-corporate-diversity-starbuck-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">targeted by anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck\u003c/a> who has led social media campaigns pressuring companies to drop their programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEI efforts, Zheng says, are attempts to push the status quo towards meritocracy. But popular distortions about it, as well as Critical Race Theory, have been fueled by right-wing think tanks and influencers like Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his YouTube channel last year, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/5BH8NSyi6OU?si=546BG6UtUmiTl_UF&t=307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rufo laid out his strategy\u003c/a> for how to attack university DEI programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens is that the left will say, ‘Well you’re opposing DEI, you don’t like diversity, you don’t like equity, you don’t like inclusion,'” Rufo said. “And you can say no, those are false words, those are Orwellian terms, what I really don’t like is using taxpayer money to fund left-wing racialist ideology that seeks to divide students into oppressor and oppressed and create separate standards of judgment based on where their ancestors came from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The playbook is simple, said Zheng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take some usually progressive or even centrist idea about equality or CRT or DEI, — ideally one that is not well understood — character assassinate it by associating it with everything bad under the sun,” they said. “It’s anti-American. It’s anti-meritocracy. It’s evil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zheng added, “They’re trying to flip it back and saying, ‘No, no, no, it’s you. That’s the problem. The status quo is perfectly fine.'”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Around the U.S., a conservative movement to limit DEI initiatives has been gaining momentum in state capitals and college governing boards, with officials in many states taking action against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement gained momentum last year after the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action at universities, which created a new legal landscape around diversity programs in the workplace and civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DEI’s emergence as a political rallying cry also has its roots on campus, with Republican opponents saying the programs are discriminatory and promote left-wing ideology. Trump has hinted at potential legislation to fine universities over diversity initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, legacy admissions, long seen as a perk for the white and wealthy at selective colleges, have come under fire in recent years following the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action. By banning affirmative action but allowing legacy preferences, which favor the children of alumni and donors, critics say the court left admissions even more lopsided against students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades, universities gave preferential admission treatment to donors and their family members, while others tied to legacies of harm were ignored and at times outright excluded,” Bryan told the AP. “We have a moral responsibility to do all we can to right those wrongs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='reparations']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan said he is hopeful for approval of the measure, which is in line with recommendations developed by members of California’s Black Reparations Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a growing understanding of California’s role in perpetuating the inequalities that arose from slavery, and there’s a willingness to try to rectify that harm, to heal that harm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students made up about 4% of the California State University’s student population and about 4.7% at the University of California in 2023, according to the university systems’ latest reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal follows reparations efforts at the state level that have yielded mixed results. 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Gavin Newsom signed a law in September to formally apologize for the state’s legacy of racism and discrimination against Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state lawmakers blocked a bill that would have created an agency to administer reparations programs, and Newsom vetoed a proposal that would have helped Black families reclaim property that was seized unjustly by the government through eminent domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, California voters also rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor, squashing another proposal championed by Bryan and other members of the California Legislative Black Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12002657 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (right) talks to members of Coalition for a Just and Equitable California about two reparations bills in the rotunda on the last day of the legislative year, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Tran Nguyen/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The purpose of the measure is to rectify past and current discrimination at universities, Bryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When folks think about reparations, they think about just cash payments. But repairing the harm and the inequality that came from slavery and the policies thereafter is a much bigger process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan said he also proposed the measure, which will have to go through a monthslong legislative approval process, in part to respond to Trump’s recent statements about paying “reparations” to white students that he said have been affected by diversity, equity and inclusion programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States, including Kansas and Iowa, passed laws banning DEI offices and initiatives in higher education, and Republican lawmakers in about two dozen states proposed at least 50 bills to restrict DEI programs last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s incoming deputy chief of policy will be his former adviser, Stephen Miller, who leads a group called America First Legal that has aggressively challenged corporate DEI policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who has vowed to rid America’s schools of perceived “ wokeness,” also has plans to cut funding for schools that defy him on a multitude of issues on his first day in office, though even some of his supporters say he lacks the authority to make such swift and sweeping changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990718\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990718 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus on April 23, 2012, in Berkeley, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump has heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.” He has picked Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive, to lead the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like many conservative politicians before him, Trump also has called for dismantling the department altogether, a cumbersome task that likely would require action from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The murder of George Floyd four years ago sparked a racial awakening for some Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, the momentum to address systemic racism, demanded by the people who marched in protest against police violence, has evaporated. Initiatives to create more inclusive organizations are being canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The business community, long averse to political risks or controversies, backed away from DEI programs over the past two years in the wake of widespread attacks from lawmakers, high-profile rich guys and conservative activists like former Trump aide Stephen Miller,” \u003cem>Axios\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/dei-backlash-diversity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top\">reported\u003c/a> in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an attack on equity,” Eric Abrams, KQED’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only a matter of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only a few years ago that conservatives attacked Critical Race Theory, the academic framework that recognizes racism is embedded in institutions, laws and policies, impacting everything from health care to education to employment opportunities. The theory is that racism is more than individual bias and prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2023, the conservative U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended race-conscious admission programs at colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diversity, equity and inclusion — DEI — was on my mind on Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that freed Black people, went into effect. DEI has been around for decades with origins in the civil rights movement. In the 1960s and 1970s, many companies began deploying diversity training until the practice cooled during President Ronald Reagan’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Floyd’s death, there was a renewed demand for policies to address the exclusion of historically marginalized groups. When done appropriately, DEI includes hiring practices, pay inequity, poor retention rates among marginalized groups and anti-discrimination training, among other things. The backlash of the brief era has been swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEI initiatives have been bombarded on college campuses, corporate boardrooms and state legislatures. In an effort to suppress history, books focused on the experiences of non-white people have been banned. Rich, powerful men have claimed that DEI is “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1742653436393406618\">another word for racism\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760\">inherently a racist and illegal movement\u003c/a>.” A politician, whose wealth is in question because of mounting \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-carroll-fines-82d423b8e7a7f9a32470729c5f4410e5\">legal debts\u003c/a>, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/01/donald-trump-anti-white-racism-dei/73528246007/\">vowed\u003c/a> to end anti-white racism. To hear the privileged talk, DEI is \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-reverse-racism-civil-rights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top\">worse than the N-word\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is DEI bound for the garbage at KQED, an organization intentionally focused on public service? Earlier this week, I sat down with Abrams and Candace Rucker, KQED’s DEI program manager, to begin a conversation about the challenges of their work — and what the DEI backlash means for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlamagne tha God, a Black radio and TV host, pilloried DEI initiatives as a PR stunt on \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em>. Naturally, his appearance was celebrated on \u003cem>Fox News\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking about corporate DEI initiatives that were created after George Floyd that were more symbolism over substance,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/magazine/charlamagne-tha-god-interview.html\">told\u003c/a> \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> last month. “I’m talking about the corporations who do things like putting a Simone Biles poster in the break room and saying something like, ‘We’re head over heels for diversity here.’ I’m not talking about DEI over all, and it’s so interesting to me because I love what the right-wing media does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991198\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991198\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer Eric Abrams on April 15, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abrams chuckled when I mentioned the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about performative corporate DEI initiatives, there’s a lot of this stuff that is, I think, inherently performative,” he said. “But there’s nothing performative about talking to journalists about their internal unconscious bias. There’s nothing performative about talking to our other colleagues or our HR team on how we can improve our hiring processes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did inclusivity become a wedge in America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the picture that DEI gets is that it’s anti-white and it’s only for marginalized groups or racially-minoritized people. It’s not, though,” Rucker said. “That’s one of the flaws of the DEI industry. When it was getting started and when it started gaining traction, we did not market it correctly. We are all for the marginalized groups and racially-minoritized people, which we should be, but we left out everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/05/17/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-workplace/\">report\u003c/a> by Pew Research Center, about two-thirds or more of Black, Asian and Hispanic workers say that focusing on DEI at work is a good thing. Less than half of white workers, roughly 47%, feel the same. The gap widens when broken down generationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, NBC \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/diversity-roles-disappear-three-years-george-floyd-protests-inspired-rcna72026\">reported\u003c/a> DEI roles increased by 55% after Floyd’s murder. The roles have disappeared, signaling that efforts to make companies more inclusive weren’t supported by the companies. Maybe it’s because the rapid DEI expansion didn’t invite what people perceive as the opposite of DEI — cisgender, heterosexual white men — to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t include him in the conversation, how the hell is he going to be a good ally?” Rucker said. “How is he going to know what he can do to support everybody else — to unlearn the things that he’s previously learned and relearn from different perspectives? He’s not going to know how to do that if we don’t include him in the conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams said: “Ultimately, what we’d like to create here is space where we can have these difficult conversations in a civil, non-attacking, ‘Yeah, you disagree with me on this issue, but let’s go to lunch [anyway]’ versus, ‘You disagree with me on this issue, you’re evil, we can never speak again’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I will continue having periodic conversations with Abrams and Rucker, because I believe in diversity, equity and inclusion — mixed with a healthy dose of curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are focused on making things equitable for everybody,” Rucker told me. “We’re focused on people — \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of the people. Including everybody in the conversation and fostering that curiosity. If you constantly talk about curiosity and practice it in front of people, people are going to catch on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be epic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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When done appropriately, DEI includes hiring practices, pay inequity, poor retention rates among marginalized groups and anti-discrimination training, among other things. The backlash of the brief era has been swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEI initiatives have been bombarded on college campuses, corporate boardrooms and state legislatures. In an effort to suppress history, books focused on the experiences of non-white people have been banned. Rich, powerful men have claimed that DEI is “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1742653436393406618\">another word for racism\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760\">inherently a racist and illegal movement\u003c/a>.” A politician, whose wealth is in question because of mounting \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-carroll-fines-82d423b8e7a7f9a32470729c5f4410e5\">legal debts\u003c/a>, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/01/donald-trump-anti-white-racism-dei/73528246007/\">vowed\u003c/a> to end anti-white racism. To hear the privileged talk, DEI is \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-reverse-racism-civil-rights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top\">worse than the N-word\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is DEI bound for the garbage at KQED, an organization intentionally focused on public service? Earlier this week, I sat down with Abrams and Candace Rucker, KQED’s DEI program manager, to begin a conversation about the challenges of their work — and what the DEI backlash means for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlamagne tha God, a Black radio and TV host, pilloried DEI initiatives as a PR stunt on \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em>. Naturally, his appearance was celebrated on \u003cem>Fox News\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking about corporate DEI initiatives that were created after George Floyd that were more symbolism over substance,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/magazine/charlamagne-tha-god-interview.html\">told\u003c/a> \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> last month. “I’m talking about the corporations who do things like putting a Simone Biles poster in the break room and saying something like, ‘We’re head over heels for diversity here.’ I’m not talking about DEI over all, and it’s so interesting to me because I love what the right-wing media does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991198\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991198\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240414-WHERE-DOES-DEI-STAND-MD-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer Eric Abrams on April 15, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abrams chuckled when I mentioned the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about performative corporate DEI initiatives, there’s a lot of this stuff that is, I think, inherently performative,” he said. “But there’s nothing performative about talking to journalists about their internal unconscious bias. There’s nothing performative about talking to our other colleagues or our HR team on how we can improve our hiring processes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did inclusivity become a wedge in America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the picture that DEI gets is that it’s anti-white and it’s only for marginalized groups or racially-minoritized people. It’s not, though,” Rucker said. “That’s one of the flaws of the DEI industry. When it was getting started and when it started gaining traction, we did not market it correctly. We are all for the marginalized groups and racially-minoritized people, which we should be, but we left out everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/05/17/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-workplace/\">report\u003c/a> by Pew Research Center, about two-thirds or more of Black, Asian and Hispanic workers say that focusing on DEI at work is a good thing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bill Blanken, a chemistry professor at Reedley College, said a new diversity and equity policy in California’s community colleges amounts to a “loyalty oath” and “compelled speech” that runs afoul of free speech and academic freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanken, along with five other tenured professors in State Center Community College District, are challenging new California Community College diversity policies that change the way employees are evaluated. A lawsuit, filed in August, describes the plaintiffs as critics of anti-racism and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) principles who are concerned that these stances could result in negative performance evaluations or even losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need legal protection,” Blanken said in an interview with EdSource on Oct. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Board of Governors for the California Community Colleges adopted new regulations requiring local districts to evaluate employees, including faculty, on their competency in working with a diverse student population. Local districts were required to be in compliance last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanken disagrees with the DEIA policy’s premise that racism is embedded in institutions, including California’s community colleges, or in disciplines such as chemistry, math and physics. He argues that these fields should be taught in a way that is race- and gender-neutral. That is at the crux of the lawsuit by the six plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jill Wagner, spokesperson, State Center Community College District\"]‘DEIA initiatives have sparked many important conversations spanning decades, and as this issue continues to evolve, efforts to address them will continue to be at the forefront.’[/pullquote]Filed by free speech advocacy group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit-fire-sues-stop-california-forcing-professors-teach-dei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit-fire-sues-stop-california-forcing-professors-teach-dei\">the suit\u003c/a> names California Community College Chancellor Sonya Christian, the board of governors of the California Community Colleges as well as the chancellor and governing board of State Center Community College District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A related suit, filed in June on behalf of Bakersfield College history professor Daymon Johnson, targets the chancellor and board of the Kern Community College District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Center Community College District, which serves Fresno and surrounding central San Joaquin Valley communities, is one of the first districts in the state to include these new diversity requirements in its \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.scccd.edu/_uploaded-files/documents/scccd-scft-agreement-ft-2022-2025-05.9.23-accessible-copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest faculty contract (PDF)\u003c/a>. The district said in a statement that it will defend its implementation of the state’s DEIA regulations and its collaborative effort with the State Center Federation of Teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District now and forever will be a welcoming place for a diverse population, with a commitment to access and inclusion,” wrote Jill Wagner, spokesperson for State Center Community College District. “DEIA initiatives have sparked many important conversations spanning decades, and as this issue continues to evolve, efforts to address them will continue to be at the forefront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s new evaluation process requires instructional faculty to demonstrate “teaching and learning practices that reflect DEIA and anti-racist principles,” in addition to a written self-evaluation on the faculty’s “understanding” of DEIA competencies and “anti-racist principles,” with the goal of improving “equitable student outcomes and course completion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How these principles will play out in the next rounds of evaluation is still uncertain. Blanken said he has not received guidance from his department. A September memo by State Center’s human resources department noted that the district and academic senate have yet to develop uniform training guidelines for evaluations, and that meanwhile, “evaluatees should, in good faith, review the language in the contract and do their best to speak to how they have demonstrated or shown progress toward practices that embrace the DEIA principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Ortner, the FIRE attorney representing the State Center professors said, “That’s not good enough when free speech is on the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortner added that broad, undefined regulations could have a “chilling effect” on speech in the classroom. Plaintiffs are particularly concerned about a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.asccc.org/sites/default/files/CCC_DEI-in-Curriculum_Model_Principles_and_Practices_June_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">framework released by the California Community College Curriculum Committee (PDF)\u003c/a> that warns professors not to “‘weaponize’ academic freedom and academic integrity in an academic discipline or inflict curricular trauma” on historically marginalized students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suit, plaintiffs said they have changed the way they teach their classes this semester because of the new DEIA policies. Loren Palsgaard, English professor at Madera Community College, said he will no longer assign texts that contain racial slurs, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and works by William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A response filed on Oct. 2 by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, on behalf of the chancellor and the board of governors challenges the claim the DEIA policies bar professors from using these texts, adding that this framework is not binding and only provides a reference for college districts creating their own DEIA policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidance “expresses competencies the Chancellor’s Office endorses, but does not require,” wrote Melissa Villarin, spokesperson for the state Chancellor’s Office. “The regulations do not impose penalties on district employees. They are intended to contribute to employee professional development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, said that it is well within a college’s rights to not only prescribe the curriculum for courses but to insist that faculty be sensitive to teaching a diverse student body. He added, however, that schools cannot require that faculty espouse a particular viewpoint in their teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is whether this is more the former than the latter,” Chemerinsky wrote in an email to EdSource, adding that he believes the government has a strong argument that this is within its realm of prescribing a curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to say on this record that the First Amendment has been violated,” Chemerisky wrote. “It would be different if a teacher was being disciplined and bringing a challenge.” None of the plaintiffs in the suits has been disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Daniel Ortner, FIRE attorney representing State Center professors\"]‘A lot of colleges have anti-discrimination protections that make students feel welcome, such as tutoring, mentoring. There are a lot of things that you can do that don’t impinge on free speech.’[/pullquote]A separate \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ifs.org/cases/johnson-v-watkin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://www.ifs.org/cases/johnson-v-watkin/\">suit\u003c/a>, filed by the Institute for Free Speech on behalf of Bakersfield College professor Daymon Johnson, points to the firing of Matthew Garrett, a professor who had been critical of DEIA initiatives. Garrett was not subject to new DEIA policies affecting faculty evaluations. However, Johnson’s suit claims that he worries that he, too, could lose his job, because he shares many of the same conservative values and anti-DEIA stances as Garrett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern Community College District said in a statement that Garrett was not terminated because of his opinions on DEIA or other free speech issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matthew Garrett was terminated after a lengthy and detailed examination of his disciplinary violations at Bakersfield College,” said district spokesperson Norma Rojas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs in both suits have asked the court for a preliminary injunction that would prevent the California Community Colleges’ DEIA policy — as well as State Center Community College District’s faculty contract — from going into immediate effect. The request remains pending in federal court, and no hearing date is currently set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortner said he is not aware of any other lawsuits from California’s 116 community colleges that are targeting the new DEIA policies, but he’s keeping his eye on the issue statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of colleges have anti-discrimination protections that make students feel welcome, such as tutoring, mentoring. There are a lot of things that you can do that don’t impinge on free speech,” Ortner said. “California colleges are much more aggressive and forward in advocating for these principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/community-college-professors-allege-new-diversity-policies-infringe-on-academic-freedom/699920\">This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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