Articles Tagged: Diversity, equity and inclusion

The move from the company known on Wall Street as Deere & Co. arrives just weeks after rural retailer Tractor Supply ended an array of its corporate diversity and climate efforts. Both announcements came after backlash piled up online from conservative activists opposed to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, sponsorship of LGBTQ+ Pride events and climate advocacy.

For over 20 years, Buxton thrived as Iowa’s only majority Black city in history. Here’s what historians and authors of books say about it, and what Iowans can learn today from the former Monroe County town.

A month since several regents and lawmakers criticized Iowa’s public universities for keeping too close to the vest details on their progress to pare down diversity, equity, and inclusion functions, the University of Iowa has shared a campuswide update on its new “Division of Access Opportunity & Diversity.”

Relief but sorrow after missing Iowa trucker’s body found, ISU, UNI closing DEI offices, Universities balance retention with lawmaker concerns as tenure numbers slide, Heavy rain, severe storms possible Friday through Sunday

The Community Foundation of Johnson County is working with the cities of Iowa City and North Liberty to create a diversity, equity and inclusion training that will be available to nonprofit organizations in Johnson County.

Relief but sorrow after missing Iowa trucker’ss body found, ISU, UNI closing DEI offices, Universities balance retention with lawmaker concerns as tenure numbers slide, Heavy rain, severe storms possible Friday through Sunday

Also, Iowa police chiefs raise concerns over new illegal immigration law

Across the globe, the Rev. Michael Lapsley has facilitated healing from trauma and wounds through storytelling. This month, you can participate in his workshops.

Now 50 years in the making, the International Banquet has offered a space for students to express themselves. But in celebrating their differences, they realized that they’re more alike than they thought.

LaTasha DeLoach uses her roles across Johnson County to nurture networks and opportunities for people of color, especially Black women

A month after Iowa’s Board of Regents approved a list of diversity, equity and inclusion recommendations, like restructuring DEI offices and cutting unnecessary positions, its public universities have started to “review and reimagine” their campus DEI efforts.

Iowa is one of several states whose cities continue to affirm policies inclusive of LGBTQ residents, despite setbacks for them from new state laws.

It was when I looked at the lengthy list of comments on a candidate’s ad on Facebook that I first …

The funding is part of $300 million from a USDA program intended to support underserved producers and landowners like Guy Ngoma, who came to Cedar Rapids from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ngoma hopes to get 28 acres of his own land one day to grow culturally relevant African food for the community.

Separate bills banning spending for DEI offices in higher education have been proposed in Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, Utah and West Virginia, though some of those already have failed.