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‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
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  1. Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez

    1. Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez is a researcher in neurobiology, physiology and behaviour at the University of California, Davis.

We’ve seen the headlines: on 14 February, the US Department of Education ruled that race-based scholarships and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes violate civil-rights law. Universities that don’t dismantle these programmes risk losing federal funding.

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Nature 639, 277 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00667-2

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