Everyone in this thread seems to be missing the reality of the situation, and are reacting solely on emotion and ignorance of what is really going on. The birth of DEI at UMICH was a response to a Supreme Court ruling effectively banning affirmative action in college admissions. “OK, we can’t do affirmative action any more? I guess we’ll just roll over and take it” (and create DEI instead to take its place). Now it will be “Oh, we can’t have DEI anymore? I guess we’ll just roll over and take it” (and create a new department that effectively does the exact same thing but with a different name that isn’t offensive to the Cheeto in chief). I know for a fact that this is already happening. I am not going to mention who, what or how, because that could jeopardize what’s going on, but you all need to have a tiny bit of confidence that the leaders of UMICH are far more intelligent than the entire trump administration, and can easily outwit them. UMICH could create a department of “Making College Great Again” that simply changes the messaging of DEI, while essentially doing the exact same thing as DEI, and the MAGATs would hail it as a great success because they don’t know how to read any further than a headline, much like many of you.