Regents OK policy changes targeting ‘indoctrination’

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IOWA CITY — In a politically-charged higher education climate — including in Iowa, where students are just weeks from returning to campuses under fire for undercover videos attempting to expose gaps in compliance with DEI laws — the Board of Regents on Tuesday approved new policies aimed at avoiding “indoctrination.”

“I do think this is the right path,” regent Robert Cramer said of the board’s decision to drop entirely its consideration of a new policy that would have prohibited Iowa’s public universities from making students take courses with “substantial” diversity, equity, and inclusion or critical race theory content to satisfy any major, minor, or certificate.

Instead — after hearing