As Texas bans diversity and equity offices at public colleges, Rice University’s inclusion efforts march on – Houston Public Media
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 26, 2023
Alexander X. Byrd, the vice provost for the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Rice University, poses for a portrait on campus. Credit: Callaghan O’Hare for The Texas Tribune
HOUSTON — It's 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in September and Alexander X. Byrd's daylong, meeting-packed marathon across Rice University's lush grounds is just ramping up.
He's having his team in the diversity, equity and inclusion office discuss a divisive debate that erupted at Yale University after a professor portrayed administrators' guidance against racially offensive Halloween costumes as an affront . . .
