Academe Today: DEI Goals Are Worthy. Campus DEI Bureaucracies Fail Them. (Opinion)

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March 16, 2023

From: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Subject: Academe Today: DEI Goals Are Worthy. Campus DEI Bureaucracies Fail Them. (Opinion)

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