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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP.

For those who are still following, here is the U of M DEI exec's response:

https://michiganchronicle.com/dr-tabbye-chavous-a-battle-for-truth-setting-the-record-straight-on-dei-at-u-m/

Among select interesting points:

1) the $250M includes funding for the low income scholarships already discussed on this thread as a better use of the money.

2) the NYT asked the U to fact check the article on short notice but did not accept the corrections.

3) incidents included in the article did not happen and/or were improperly attributed to formal university DEI initiatives.

4) Dr. Chavous points out some unnecessary descriptive info that the journalist kept inserting about her at odd points.

This is exactly what I meant about reserving judgment when spicy and polarizing news comes out.  It's important to hear and consider the rebuttals and allegations of misquoting. And they often come.

Even though I do value the mainstream media, I've been around long enough to see stories reported by big news outlets with mistaken assumptions or factual mistakes where I had direct knowledge but no authorization to speak.  So I believe the U of M exec has made some valid rebuttal points.  Many of them were already presented in this thread.

Read for yourself.[/quote]

Yes. The whole piece seems lopsided and sensationalized.

I wonder how much of that was the journalist vs the editor.  
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