DEI Practices in Kentucky Higher Education and CPE's Impact
Explore Kentucky's higher education landscape focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, the role of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), required quotas, URM definitions, promotion of DEI through courses like UK 101, annual diversity review processes, and recommendations to reform DEI policies in academia.
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DEI PRACTICES IN KENTUCKY HIGHER EDUCATION Dr. Tim Minella, Senior Constitutionalism Fellow Van Sittert Center for Constitutional Advocacy at the Goldwater Institute
KENTUCKY COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (CPE) Charged with ensuring public postsecondary institutions meet their equal educational opportunity goals. KRS 164.020(19) Institutions not meeting these goals are prohibited from establishing new academic programs. Misuses this power to require racial discrimination and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.
REQUIRED QUOTAS Percentage of undergraduates classified as African American or Black. Percentage of undergraduates classified as Hispanic. Percentage of undergraduates classified as Underrepresented Minorities (URM). Percentage of graduates classified as URM. Percentage of full-time/tenure-track faculty classified as URM. Percentage of employees in managerial or administrative positions classified as URM.
UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY (URM) CPE defines URM as: Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or Two or more Races.
CPE PROMOTES DEI PRACTICES UK 101 course with material on unconscious bias, microaggressions, and other DEI content. Required for many students. 2,813 students took UK 101 in Fall 2022. DEI statements: diversity and inclusion questions during interviews.
CPE ANNUAL DIVERSITY REVIEW PROCESS Meet DEI quotas and adopt DEI policies, or lose ability to establish new academic programs. Kentucky State University, the commonwealth s only public HBCU, failed the 2024 review. KSU committed to increasing its Latinx enrollment.
RECOMMENDATIONS Abolish DEI bureaucracies. Prohibit requiring DEI courses for graduation.
