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Derek Ishikawa

Oct 29, 2026

4:58
And really looking forward, how has the Trump administration really addressed DEI?
5:04
Yeah, that's a great question.
5:06
So This kind of goes back to the whole pendulum.
5:10
And so there were some steps in the first Trump administration to address DE&I, but really the significant efforts on rolling back and sort of eradicating DE&I, that happened during this current administration.
5:25
And so when President Trump took office, On January 20th, 2025, he signed a number of executive orders significantly impacting diversity, equity, and inclusion and gender-related policies and practices in higher education.
5:38
Most notably, he issued Executive Order 14173, which terminated government-sponsored DE&I initiatives and ordered federal agencies to investigate and prevent illegal DE&I initiatives across the private sector.
5:52
And so this was sort of premised on the idea that DE&I programs are actually illegal discrimination.

9 MINS LATER

15:20
We're talking about recent developments that are happening under the Trump administration, but is there anything in particular that evidences the administration's enforcement posture towards higher education institutions? Derek?

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