UNC medical school disbands its diversity, equity and inclusion taskforce trends now The University of North Carolina's medical school has disbanded its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) taskforce, without having ever implemented its recommendations. The institution had previously banned DEI statements for admissions, hiring, promotions, and tenures. Before this, the medical school required applicants to submit a statement detailing their commitment to DEI. The task force's recommendations included that students subjects like 'Understanding that America's medical system is structurally racist' and 'Understanding and Responding to Microaggressions.' UNC's decision comes after the activist group Color Us United, which advocates for a 'race blind America,' campaigned for the university to axe its DEI policies for medical school staff and students. Kenny Xu, the organization's president, told Fox News Digital DEI frameworks 'lower the quality of doctors and inundate their students with ideologies that have nothing to do with what is medically necessary.' The University of North Carolina's medical school has disbanded its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) taskforce The task force's recommendations included that students subjects like 'Understanding that America's medical system is structurally racist' Xu said UNC is 'the first medical school to revoke their DEI framework without legislative interference, because it shows that we convinced key decision makers on the merits of revoking DEI, and showed it’s harmful consequences on employees, student education, and the public.' He added that Color Us United will now lobby other medical schools to remove 'DEI’s divisive influence.' The group has fought DEI programs in the past, including when a small school district in California planned to spend $40 million teaching 'ethnic studies' to high school students. The UNC taskforce gave the recommendations in 2020, taking advisement from the Association of American Medical Colleges. It claimed: 'A wealth of literature has demonstrated disparities in health care access, quality, and outcomes. We now know these disparities are apparent both across our healthcare system and within most individual providers’ patient panels.' The taskforce's stated goals included finding environments where diverse groups of students thrive, training in areas of social justice and DEI, recruiting students from diverse backgrounds, eliminating racist content and terminology from the curriculum, avoiding implicit bias in treatment and allowing students to advocate on behalf of patients. However, UNC's Senior University Counsel Kirsten Stevenson said in a letter on May 11 that the school would not be following any of the recommendations in the short or long term. 'The Task Force was initiated as a means to emphasize compliance with the School of Medicine’s and the Department of Health Sciences’ shared mission of improving the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians,' the letter to a the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. 'While we remain committed to these important missions, the recommendations have not been operationalized and the Task Force has concluded its work. There is no plan to implement the Task Force’s recommendations now or in the future. 'Even if the recommendations were revisited in the future, further review and revision would be required.' Stevenson cited a new university police that prohibits the university from requiring an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment from having to 'affirmatively ascribe to or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles regarding mattes of contemporary political debate or social action as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancement.' Activist Kenny Xu said DEI frameworks 'lower the quality of doctors and inundate their students with ideologies that have nothing to do with what is medically necessary' A UNC School of Medicine spokesperson told DailyMail.com on Thursday that the task force was formed in 2019. 'A year later, it completed its work and issued recommendations. Most of those recommendations were not adopted,' the spokesperson added. 'The UNC School of Medicine DEI policies are aligned with accreditation requirements of the Association of American Medical Colleges.' While the DEI task force has been dismantled, the university still has an office of diversity, equity and inclusion and offers a DEI certificate. DailyMail.com has reached out Color Us Blind for comment. Various universities across the country now ask for DEI statements for prospective students and employees. Former University of Toronto professor J.D. Haltigan sued the University of California at Santa Cruz after he was required to submit a DEI statement with his job application. He claims his First Amendment rights were violated by the requirement, in the lawsuit filed last week. The DEI prompt requires applicants 'give examples of a candidate's past contributions to diversity, demonstrate an understanding of the particular diversity and equity related issues and needs in a candidate's field, or in higher education more generally, and/or discuss the candidate's vision for how they might make contributions to diversity in the future,' according to UCSC's website. The statements are then scored by school officials who use a rubric to grade them from 1 to 5 based on the applicant's knowledge of DEI, experience with it and plans to 'advance it.' All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility