The West Virginia legislature introduced a bill Tuesday to ban several pillars of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry on college campuses.
House Bill 3503 was introduced by State Delegate Chris Pritt. The bill would abolish diversity statements and race-based preferential hiring practices, ban mandatory diversity training, and ban the state’s colleges and universities and other educational institutions from funding DEI activities. The new law follows similar moves in multiple Republican-led states.
First, the bill bans “diversity statements” from being required on college admissions and employment applications, hiring contract renewals, or promotion processes; or administrative decisions by colleges. The bill defines a “diversity statement” as: