University DEI: Status Quo and Rebrands
Investigations
Total number of states: 46 plus the District of Columbia
Total colleges and universities in the report: 262
Total colleges and universities with active Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): 245
Total active DEI offices/programming (includes colleges or departments): 403
Active DEI offices/programming breakdown by college or department:
- Business Schools: 4
- Honors Colleges: 16
- Law Schools: 21
- Colleges of Education: 27
- Colleges of Engineering: 30
- Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, or Health: 54
Allegedly renamed or rebranded DEI offices: 28
Total number of institutions that removed webpages or shut down DEI Offices: 18
SUMMARY
This investigation is intended to track the current state of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices and programming (names will vary) at colleges and universities. It is meant to identify which institutions currently have DEI offices, have shut them down, or appear to have renamed or rebranded their DEI offices and programming.
To date, Defending Education has tracked 245 universities which still have institution-wide DEI offices and/or programming in operation, 180 schools or colleges (such as Colleges of Education, Engineering, or Medicine, etc.), with an overall total of 403 currently active DEI offices and programming.
Additionally, 28 institutions and schools/colleges appear to have renamed or rebranded their DEI offices, 18 universities have removed webpages and/or shut down DEI initiatives, and in a few cases, have moved the DEI webpage behind an institutional login. These cases are noted with an archived page of that institution’s former DEI page.
While some, such as the University of Alaska Anchorage, seem to have completely shut down DEI operations; meanwhile, the University of Michigan has allegedly shut down its overarching “Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion,” yet schools such as Michigan Law and the LSA Department of Psychology still have active DEI pages. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to identify if a university has fully ended DEI programming. Therefore, the removal of institution DEI webpages is noted in the list section to track these changes.
An additional goal of this report is to serve as a tool for identifying the various words and phrases used in place of DEI, or for the purpose of rebranding. In a few cases, institutions appear to have moved DEI staff and programming under its “equal opportunity” and “civil rights” offices.
Some alternative DEI language examples:
- “Access”
- “Advocacy”
- “Belonging”
- “Community”
- “Compliance”
- “Inclusive Excellence”
- “Institutional Excellence”
- “Resilience”
- “Success”
EXAMPLES
The following university side-by-side webpage examples are meant to highlight how institutions appear to rename or rebrand the DEI office or programming under a different title. The following examples show either minimal changes to the office’s overall functionality, webpage imagery, language, titles, personnel/staffing, location, etc.
Each image example includes the archived DEI webpage as well as the current iteration.
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education appears to have renamed its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the Office of Inclusion and Belonging.

Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago (IL) seems to have changed its Academic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programming to Academic Diversity and Inclusion. The updated webpage states that “general federal funding may be at risk” because of the Trump administration’s “new interpretation of laws” which “requires institutions to cease using race in various areas such as admissions, hiring, financial aid, and campus life, including Diversity and Inclusion programs.”

University of Evansville
The University of Evansville (IN) appears to have edited its Center for Inclusive Excellence webpage by revising a paragraph and removing linked images. [January 21, 2025, archived page]

Kansas State University
Kansas State University appears to have renamed its Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging programming to Access and Opportunity.

McNeese State University
McNeese State University (LA) appears to have changed its Office of Inclusive Excellence to the Office of Campus Compliance and Civility.

University of Maine
The University of Maine seems to have renamed the Office for Diversity and Inclusion to the Office for Community and Connections.

University of Montana
The University of Montana’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice webpage appears to have transitioned to Inclusive Access and Success.

The University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa (OK) appears to have rebranded its Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to the Office for Resilience and Belonging.

Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University’s (PA) Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Office seems to have been rebranded the Office of the Vice Provost for Community, Culture and Engagement.

George Mason University
George Mason University’s (VA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office appears to have turned into the Office of Access, Compliance, and Community.

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee appears to have renamed its Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to the Division of Community Empowerment & Institutional Inclusivity.

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Below is a list of universities, as well as that institution’s colleges or schools, that have active Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices or departments. If there appears to be a renaming or rebranding of that DEI department, both the original and the updated names are noted.
An * denotes that the institution appears to have renamed or rebranded its DEI office.
This is not a comprehensive list and will be continuously updated.
ALASKA
University of Alaska Anchorage
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [Archived page]
ARIZONA
University of Arizona
- James E. Rogers College of Law
- University of Arizona Health Sciences
- University Libraries
ARKANSAS
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
CALIFORNIA
California Institute of Technology
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)
- Office of University Diversity and Inclusion
- College of Engineering
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
California State University, Chico
California University of Science and Medicine
Los Angeles Community College District
Loyola Marymount University
Otis College of Art and Design
Saint Mary’s College of California
San Diego State University
- College of Education
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Santa Clara University
Soka University
Sonoma State University
Stanford University
- Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access & Community
- Doerr School of Sustainability
- Undergrad
- Vision and Philosophy*
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [Archived page]
- Vision and Philosophy*
- Stanford Law School
- Stanford Medicine
- School of Medicine – Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Berkeley
- Division of Equity & Inclusion
- Department of History
- UC Berkeley Engineering
University of California, Davis
- Office of Academic Diversity
- College of Engineering
University of California, Irvine
- Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- Anderson School of Management
- David Geffen School of Medicine
- Samueli School of Engineering
- School of Education & Information Sciences
- UCLA Law
University of California, Merced
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
- Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
- Office of Diversity and Outreach
- School of Medicine
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Office
- College of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Southern California
- USC Culture Journey*
- Office of Inclusion and Diversity [Archived page]
- Keck School of Medicine of USC
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Office of Diversity and Inclusion [Archived page]
- USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Whittier College
COLORADO
Colorado State University
- Walter Scott Jr College of Engineering
- Access and Success*
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [Archived page]
- Access and Success*
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Naropa University
University of Colorado Anshutz
- School of Medicine
University of Colorado Boulder
- Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement
- College of Engineering & Applied Sciences
University of Colorado Denver
University of Denver
CONNECTICUT
Connecticut State Community College
Eastern Connecticut State University
Sacred Heart University
Trinity College
University of Connecticut
- Office for Diversity and Inclusion
- School of Medicine – Graduate Medical Education
Wesleyan University
Western Connecticut University
Yale University
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
- Yale Law School
- Belonging*
- Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging [Archived page]
- Belonging*
DELAWARE
University of Delaware
- Office of Institutional Equity
- College of Arts & Sciences
- College of Earth, Ocean & Environment
- College of Education & Human Development
- College of Engineering
- Honors College
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Georgetown University
- Georgetown Law
- School of Medicine
The George Washington University
FLORIDA
Stetson University
The University of Tampa
University of Central Florida
- College of Medicine
GEORGIA
Emory University
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- School of Medicine
Oglethorpe University
University of Georgia
- Mary Frances Early College of Education
ILLINOIS
Augustana College
Columbia College Chicago
DePaul University
Dominican University
Elmhurst University
Harper College
Loyola University Chicago
Northeastern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University
- Division of Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Inclusive Excellence*
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [Archived page]
Northwestern University
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Institutional Diversity & Inclusion [Archived page]
- Pritzker School of Law
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [Archived page]
Roosevelt University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Southern Illinois University
- Office of Vice Chancellor for Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- SIU School of Medicine
The University of Chicago
- Pritzker School of Medicine
University of Illinois
- Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Office for Access & Equity
- Carle Illinois College of Medicine
- College of Education
- The Grainger College of Engineering – Mechanical Science & Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago
- Office of Diversity, Equity and Engagement
- College of Engineering
- College of Medicine
- Honors College
- UIC Law
INDIANA
Butler University
Indiana University
- Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- School of Medicine
Indiana University Indianapolis
University of Notre Dame
Purdue University
- Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
- College of Education
- College of Veterinary Medicine
Saint Mary’s College
University of Evansville
- Center for Inclusive Excellence*
- Center for Inclusive Excellence [Archived page]
IOWA
Drake University
Grinnell College
KANSAS
Kansas State University
- Office of Access and Opportunity*
- Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at K-State [Archived page]
The University of Kansas
- Medical Center
KENTUCKY
Centre College
University of Louisville
- Office of Institutional Equity
- College of Education and Human Development
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – CEHD Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion [Archive page]
LOUISIANA
McNeese State University
- Office of Campus Compliance and Civility*
- Office of Inclusive Excellence [Archived page]
Tulane University
- School of Medicine
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion [Archived page]
MAINE
Bates College
University of Maine
- Office for Community and Connections*
- Office for Diversity and Inclusion [Archived page]
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- School of Law
University of Maine at Augusta
MARYLAND
Loyola University Maryland
John Hopkins University
- John Hopkins Medicine
McDaniel College
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [Archived page]
Salisbury University
Towson University
University of Maryland
- Office of Diversity & Inclusion
- College of Education
University of Maryland Baltimore
MASSACHUSETTS
Amherst College
Clark University
College of the Holy Cross
Emerson College
- Office of Internationalization and Equity
- School of the Arts
Endicott College
Harvard University
- Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
- Graduate School of Design
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Harvard Law
- Medical School
Massachusetts College of Arts and Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- School of Engineering
Simmons University
Smith College
Stonehill College
Tufts University
- Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence
- School of Engineering
- School of Medicine
UMASS Chan Medical School
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Office of Equity and Inclusion
- College of Education
- College of Engineering
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
MICHIGAN
Central Michigan University
- Office for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- College of Medicine
Eastern Michigan University
Grand Valley State University
Michigan State University
- Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
- EVPA Office of DEI
- College of Education
- College of Engineering
- College of Human Medicine
- College of Law
- The Graduate School
Northern Michigan University
Oakland University
University of Michigan
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion [Archived page]
- LSA Department of Psychology
- Michigan Engineering
- Michigan Law
MINNESOTA
Bemidji State University
College of St. Scholastica, The
Macalester College
Mayo Clinic
- College of Medicine and Science
Metropolitan State University
Minnesota State University System
St. Catherine University
University of Minnesota
- Office for Equity and Diversity
- College of Liberal Arts
- Minnesota Law
University of St. Thomas
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi State University
The University of Southern Mississippi
- Office of Leadership and Student Involvement
- Honors College
MISSOURI
Washington University in St. Louis
- Center for Diversity & Inclusion
- McKelvey School of Engineering
- Office of Technology Management
- School of Medicine
- WashU Law
Webster University
MONTANA
Montana State University
- Diversity Council
- College of Education, Health, & Human Development
University of Montana
- Inclusive Access and Success*
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice [Archived page]
NEBRASKA
Nebraska Wesleyan University
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Diversity and Inclusion [Archived page]
NEVADA
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
University of Nevada, Reno
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Dartmouth College
- Division of Institutional Diversity and Equity
- Geisel School of Medicine
Plymouth State University
University of New Hampshire
- Office of Community, Equity and Diversity
- College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
NEW JERSEY
Princeton University
- Office of Diversity & Inclusion
- Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity
- Office of Finance & Treasury
- Princeton Engineering
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Rutgers University
- University Equity and Inclusion
- Honors College
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- School of Engineering
- Innovations in Engineering Education*
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [Archive page]
- Innovations in Engineering Education*
Saint Peter’s University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stockton University
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico State University
The University of New Mexico
- Health Sciences Center
- Honors College
- School of Medicine
NEW YORK
Adelphi University
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
- Honors College
- Ruth S. Ammon College of Education and Health Sciences
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Buffalo State University (SUNY)
Clarkson University
Colgate University
Columbia University
- Barnard College
- Columbia Business School
- Columbia Law School
- Columbia School of Social Work
Cornell University
- Cornell Engineering
- Cornell Law School
- Weill Cornell Medicine
Empire State University (SUNY)
Fordham University
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hofstra University
- Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine
Marist University
New York University
- Office of Global Inclusion
- College of Dentistry
- Leonard N. Stern School of Business
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- NYU School of Law
- Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
- Tandon School of Engineering
Pace University
St. John’s University
St. Lawrence University
The State University of New York System (SUNY)
SUNY Brockport
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
SUNY Fredonia
SUNY Old Westbury
SUNY Oneonta
SUNY Plattsburgh
University at Albany
- Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- Massry School of Business
- School of Education
University at Buffalo
- Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Department of Medicine
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- School of Nursing
University of Rochester
- Office of Equity and Inclusion
- School of Medicine & Dentistry
NORTH CAROLINA
Davidson College
Duke University
- Duke Law
- Pratt School of Engineering
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
North Carolina State University
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity [Archived page]
Queens University of Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- School of Law
- UNC School of Medicine
Wake Forest University
- Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- School of Medicine
NORTH DAKOTA
University of North Dakota
- Community & Belonging*
- Diversity & Inclusion [Archive page]
OHIO
Baldwin Wallace University
Kenyon College
Ohio University
The Ohio State University
- College of Education and Human Ecology
- College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
- College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
University of Dayton
University of Toledo
- Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Jesup Scott Honors College
Wright State University
- Boonshoft School of Medicine
OKLAHOMA
The University of Tulsa
OREGON
Lewis & Clark College
Oregon State University
- Office of Institutional Diversity
- College of Engineering
Pacific University
Portland State University
Southern Oregon University
University of Oregon
- Division of Equity and Inclusion
- College of Education
University of Portland
Western Oregon University
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- College of Education
PENNSYLVANIA
Arcadia University
Bucknell University
Carnegie Mellon University
Drexel University
Eastern University
Gettysburg College
Haverford College
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- College of Education and Human Services
Juniata College
Lehigh University
Maywood University
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – The Office of Equity & Inclusion [Archived page]
Millersville University
- Office of Inclusive Excellence*
- Office of Diversity and Inclusion [Archived page]
- Honors College
Misericordia University
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- College of Engineering
- College of Education
- College of Health and Human Development
- College of Medicine
- Schreyer Honors College
Saint Joseph’s University
Temple University
- Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership
- College of Education and Human Development
- College of Engineering
- Lewis Katz School of Medicine
- School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management
University of Pennsylvania
- The Office of Equal Opportunity Programs*
- The Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs [Archived page]
- Penn Carey Law
- Equal Opportunity & Engagement*
- Equity & Inclusion [Archived page]
- Equal Opportunity & Engagement*
- School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
- Office for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
- Office of Health Sciences Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- David C. Frederick Honors College
- School of Medicine
- Swanson School of Engineering
Villanova University
- Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Villanova School of Business
Wilkes University
RHODE ISLAND
Brown University
- Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- Division of Biology and Medicine
Rhode Island College
University of Rhode Island
SOUTH CAROLINA
College of Charleston
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [Archived page]
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Office of Institutional Diversity [Archived page]
Presbytarian College
University of South Carolina
- Office of Access and Opportunity*
- Office of Access and Opportunity [Archived page]
SOUTH DAKOTA
Augustana University
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion [Archived page]
TENNESSEE
Sewanee, The University of the South
The University of Tennessee Knoxville
- College of Law
- College of Social Work
Vanderbilt University
- Law School
- Office of Culture & Community*
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community [Archived page]
- Office of Culture & Community*
- School of Medicine
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
TEXAS
Baylor College of Medicine
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Office of Community Engagement & Health Equity [Archived page]
Baylor University
- Baylor Law School
- College of Arts and Sciences – Department of Sociology
Concordia University Texas
Rice University
- Office of Access and Institutional Excellence*
- Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [Archived page]
Southwestern University
UTAH
Brigham Young University
- BYU Office of Belonging
- Honors College
University of Utah
- Honors College
- School of Biological Sciences
Westminster University
VERMONT
Middlebury College
University of Vermont
- Division of Inclusive Excellence
- Larner College of Medicine
- Patrick Leahy Honors College
Vermont State University
VIRGINIA
George Mason University
Old Dominion University
- Batten College of Engineering and Technology
University of Richmond
- Inclusion & Belonging Division*
- Office for Institutional Equity & Inclusion [Archived page]
- Jepson School of Leadership Studies
University of Virginia
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [Archived page]
- Student Affairs
- Engineering
- School of Education and Human Development
- School of Medicine
WASHINGTON
Cascadia College
Central Washington University
Clark College
Eastern Washington University
Gonzaga University
Seattle University
University of Washington
- College of Engineering
- School of Public Health
University of Washington Bothell
Washington State University
- Office of Outreach and Education*
- Formerly the Office of Equity and Diversity
- Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Western Washington University
- Office of Equity
- WWU Honors College
- Woodring College of Education
Whitworth University
WEST VIRGINIA
West Virginia University
- WEBPAGE REMOVED – Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [Archived page]
- Health Sciences
- Honors College
WISCONSIN
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Division of Community Empowerment & Institutional Inclusivity*
- Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [Archived page]
- Honors College
University of Wisconsin – River Falls
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