University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in August 2023. Photograph: Hannah Schoenbaum/AP

On Monday, the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill announced that it would divert the school’s entire $2.3m diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) budget toward public safety and policing.

Some members of the board of trustees, which voted for the divestment, cited students’ recent anti-war demonstrations as a reason for the redesignation of funds to the campus police.