The Chronicle is tracking higher ed’s dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. As colleges make changes in response to anti-DEI legislation and mounting political pressure, an inconsistent and confusing landscape has emerged. The pace of change ramped up in 2025, when the Trump administration targeted DEI at colleges and universities through a series of of executive actions and threatened institutions that didn’t comply with a loss of federal funding.

The Chronicle has tracked changes at 428 college campuses in 47 states and the District of Columbia.

Newest Updates

Alumni of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa offered to cover the printing costs for two student magazines that the university suspended last week. The University of Alabama halted publication of Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six on December 1, citing new Department of Justice guidance about “unlawful discrimination.” The magazines focus on fashion and Black culture, respectively. MASTHEAD, an alumni group focused on promoting student journalists of color at the University of Alabama, condemned the suspensions and offered to support the publications’ production. “We’d be really excited to try to get these magazines printed for them in the spring, if that’s what the students want to do,” Victor Luckerson, MASTHEAD’s president, told AL.com.

Also updated:

• The University of Southern Indiana folded its Multicultural Office into a new “student life” department.
• Temple University renamed the medical school’s Office of Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion to the Office of Strategic Partnership in Healthcare Education and Resources.
• Virginia Tech decided to shutter four living-learning communities, including one focused on Africana studies and one on LGBT studies.
• Saint Louis University closed its Division of Diversity and Innovative Community Engagement, created a new Office of Belonging, and renamed the role of the division’s vice president to chief belonging officer.
  

This tracker collects changes that public colleges have made to offices, jobs, training, diversity statements, and other DEI-related activities since January 2023, when The Chronicle began reporting on anti-DEI legislation. Most changes come as the result of bills, executive orders, system mandates, and other state-level actions, but more public colleges have started acting independently as anti-DEI pressure mounts. Some private colleges have also made changes and are included in our rundown. The information comes from a Chronicle survey, media reports, and tips from readers.

View more details by state and individual institution below.

Methodology

This tracker collects changes that public colleges and some private colleges have made since January 2023 as a result of legislation, orders, or other state-level and institutional-level actions restricting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

The tracker reflects The Chronicle’s survey findings of public colleges in Texas and Florida that have enacted legislation banning DEI offices and activities, as well as changes compiled by The Chronicle newsroom and responses submitted through an informal survey that anyone could fill out. (In a handful of states, even though politicians have not passed laws, their criticism of DEI has driven colleges to act.)

The tracker is not meant to tally the total number of changes nationwide or at individual institutions. Rather, the aim is to help the public better understand how attacks on diversity efforts have reshaped college campuses. In cases where changes affected institutional systems, The Chronicle counted each individual campus as one college. The Chronicle counted community colleges with multiple campuses as singular entities based on their designations in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

For public-survey responses to qualify for the tracker, respondents must list the impacted institution and provide concrete documentation of changes. The Chronicle accepts the following forms of evidence: media reports, university statements, screenshots of emails, and other official college communications and documents. The Chronicle independently vets submissions and publishes those that meet these criteria.

The Chronicle is using the following categories to classify changes: offices, jobs, training, diversity statements, and other DEI-related activities (including but not limited to funding, hiring practices, and admissions practices). The written text under each entry specifies the changes. When possible, The Chronicle will provide the names of programs or exact numbers, but this tracker errs on the side of caution with tallies as not to over represent the number of changes at an institution.