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Texas becomes second state after Florida to abolish DEI offices in higher education Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed into law legislation that eliminates diversity, equity and inclusion offices at the state’s public colleges and universities. “An institution of higher education may not establish or maintain a diversity, equity, and inclusion office or hire or assign an employee of

On Thursday, GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that would protect women’s sports at the collegiate level from biological male athletes who identify as transgender women. The law, S.B. 15, known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” requires athletes at the college level to compete in sports that align with their biological sex instead of their “gender identity.” This legislation

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A jury in Boston’s federal court found the pair guilty in 2021 of buying their kids’ ways into school as athletic recruits in the first case to go to trial in the so-called “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal that embroiled prestigious universities across the country. Abdelaziz, of Las Vegas, was accused of paying $300,000 to get his daughter into the University of Southern California as a