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Offices of DEI and Precarity

Price offers that the acronym DEI is poorly defined in American academia - what does it mean for an office to be an office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Often the existence of these offices on collegiate campuses are positioned as the solution to the problem of rampant racism, ableism, misogyny, and queerphobia. Yet, in actuality, these offices often aren't given many tangible tools or actual avenues to address discrimination students are facing. This creates precarity because students, faculty and staff who are already vulnerable because of systemic oppression may be pointed towards an office of DEI by non-marginalized individuals as a resource when these offices have not been given sufficient tangible tools to address discrimination.

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Updated 2025-04-19

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