WHQR’s Sunday Edition is a free weekly newsletter delivered every Sunday morning. You can sign up for Sunday Edition here. This spring, the UNC Board of Governors voted to effectively purge DEI efforts from state universities (and the state-owned healthcare nonprofit, UNC Health). Conservatives tell me they see it as a necessary corrective against encroaching ‘woke’ ideologies that reestablishes the university as a neutral forum for ideas. More liberal-minded folks have decried it as a power grab that axes inclusion and diversity efforts that are still badly needed – especially at a campus like UNCW, where Black students are still significantly underrepresented.