So it’s surprising that members of the Board of Governors of the University of Florida—which, several years before Donald Trump, became involved in eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in education, under Florida governor Ron DeSantis—together with other search committee members, recommended Ono, now president of the University of Michigan, to be the University of Florida’s next president...
A month after starting the top job at the University of Michigan, Ono told students and faculty that the university “cannot be excellent without being diverse in the broadest sense of that word.” In that same address, he announced a $300 million investment in “companies that follow environment, social, and governance (ESG) procedures,” to help “strengthen DEI progress” in communities...
In a recent essay explaining why he’s pursuing the presidency of University of Florida, Ono wrote that he “supported what I believed to be the original intent of DEI,” but, "over time, I saw how DEI became something else—more about ideology, division and bureaucracy, not student success.” That, he said, is why “as president of the University of Michigan, I made the decision to eliminate centralized DEI offices and redirect resources toward academic support and merit-based achievement.” In that same essay, Ono wrote that “universities must serve as platforms for learning, not partisanship or ideological activism.”
In other words: Ono’s ideological journey since 2021, if it is to be believed, involves a core change in his views on the purpose of the university itself. In 2021, he indicated that he was pleased that universities serve as effective incubators for student activism. Four years later and a new job lined up, Ono says “learning” is the mission, not activism...
Full story at https://www.thefp.com/p/is-florida-really-where-woke-goes.
Maybe it's just assimilation:
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