UNCW Trustee Dr. Jimmy Tate, also a Pender County commissioner, was named chairman of the new certification subcommittee, tasked with making sure the university is in full compliance with the UNC System’s new equality policy.
“I think what the local UNCW Board of Trustees hopes to accomplish is to show that we’re in compliance with the policy. The UNCW board, in their defense, did not establish this policy. This was a policy passed by the UNC Board of Governors,” Tate told WHQR this week. “There were no trustees asking for a review of our equality policy.”
That policy, which rolled out last year, broadly sought the removal of DEI offices and programs, and prohibited universities from weighing in on ‘social or political issues of the day.’ But the details of how to comply with the UNC System’s fairly broad directives fell to individual universities — and not every chancellor or local board of trustees has pursued compliance the same way…