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Earlier this month, two schools in the UNC System posted on social media in celebration of Pride Month.<\/p>\n

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Each post was accompanied by rainbow graphics.<\/p>\n

Each post is now deleted.<\/a><\/p>\n

UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s athletic department shared the message \u201cThe Tar Heels are for everyone.\u201d At UNC Greensboro, multiple departments, including athletics, alumni relations, and first year resources, posted for Pride Month.<\/p>\n

The News & Observer obtained emails sent between UNC Greensboro administrators that reveal the reason for the controversial deletions. UNC-Chapel Hill did not respond to a similar records request in time for publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are being directed, via the UNC System office, to not post in reference to Pride Month,\u201d reads a June 4 email from Morgan Glover, director of social media strategy at UNC Greensboro. \u201cIf you have posted something on university channels, you will need to delete it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both schools cited compliance with the UNC System\u2019s Equality Policy, which requires \u201cinstitutional neutrality,\u201d as the reason for the posts\u2019 prompt removal. Under the policy \u2014 which replaced policies mandating diversity, equity, and inclusion practices \u2014 schools are instructed to avoid taking positions on matters of \u201csocial policy\u201d or \u201cpolitical controversies of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woody White, a Wilmington lawyer and member of the Board of Governors, took to social media to celebrate the removal of the Pride posts \u2014 and describe the work it took.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took 48 hours, and a lot of heavy lifting to get it done, but it happened,\u201d White wrote on LinkedIn of the deletions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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White says in his post that he was instrumental in refining the language of the Equality Policy, which says is a safeguard against impressionable young people becoming \u201cindoctrinated or force-fed ideology\u201d in college, as it privileges \u201cno one voice above any other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campuses must celebrate each holiday or observance with equal attention under the Equality Policy, or so the logic of institutional neutrality goes. In addition to LGBTQ+ Pride Month, North Carolina\u2019s governor, Josh Stein, declared<\/a> June Deaf-Blind Awareness Month, Safety Awareness Month, Anti-Lynching Awareness Month, Reunification Month, National Homeownership Month, Fatherhood Awareness Month, and Whole Child Health and Well-Being Month.<\/p>\n

The simplest way to celebrate all these observances equally might be not to celebrate them at all. The System\u2019s guidance<\/a> on the policy advises campuses to \u201creject the premise that making a public statement is the only way to support a particular group of students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did this because we believe that campuses which protect all speech, free expression and thought diversity \u2014 without favor \u2014 are best positioned to protect our democratic right of civil discourse and debate, as compared to other Universities that actively push political and ideological narratives on their students,\u201d White wrote on LinkedIn. \u201c… We expected all Chancellors to fully implement the policy, vertically, throughout their campuses. Some have done a better job than others, as evidenced by this week\u2019s postings and deletions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later this summer, each campus will have to file a report<\/a> to the Board of Governors regarding their compliance with the Equality Policy. Those will be reviewed by the Committee on University Governance at the Board\u2019s September meeting. Reports from 2024 and 2025 are publicly available online.<\/p>\n

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