Vanderbilt University Medical Center will no longer be using diversity, equity and inclusion terms, while a Vanderbilt DEI student center changed its name – all in line with a trend of schools evaluating President Donald Trump’s DEI executive order.
“All [Vanderbilt University Medical Center] academic department and center websites were instructed to remove any references to diversity, equity and inclusion and associated phrases from their websites per email correspondence to VUMC affiliates,” Vanderbilt student paper The Hustler reported.
This news follows Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order entitled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” that called for “the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”
The Hustler reported that “though VUMC is an independent non-profit, it has a contractual relationship with several government entities, therefore requiring it to comply with federal regulatory guidelines to maintain these subcontracts.”
