North Carolina college professor astonished I won after waging war on DEI

North Carolina State University professor Stephen Porter is celebrating after his university ditched DEI in its strategic plan following his formal complaint.Porter has taught applied statistics and data analysis to graduate students at NC State since 2011.The self-described “populist Republican” has been fighting against DEI policies at the university for the past decade and believes he achieved his first victory in February.“Two weeks ago, I filed a complaint citing four violations of the UNC System’s policies on institutional neutrality and the ban on compelled speech.

The university has now conceded on three out of four counts—but they’re saying as little as possible about it,” Porter wrote on his blog.In an interview with Fox News Digital, Porter said he was surprised and thrilled when he learned the university announced it would be making changes just two weeks after he had filed his complaint.“I wasn’t sure exactly what was going to happen.So I was really, really happy with the final outcome,” he said.The university announced on February 25 that it had made revisions to the language in its strategic plan and vision and values statements in order to align with the UNC System’s equality policy.Porter had filed a complaint to the UNC Board of Governors on February 8 alleging NC State was violating the UNC System policies on institutional neutrality and compelled speech in multiple ways, including in its strategic plan.In 2023, the UNC Board of Governors voted to ban DEI statements and compelled speech from admission, hiring, promotion, and tenure practices at 16 public universities.UNC also repealed and replaced its diversity and inclusion policy with an “equality policy,” which requires schools to “comply with nondiscrimination laws, comply with institutional neutrality, refrain from compelling others’ speech, and refrain from promoting political or social concepts through training or required beliefs.”Porter said the...