DEI policy changes in Florida are impacting higher education business

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University of North Florida Associate Professor Carolyne Ali-Khan started looking at jobs outside of Florida a year ago, as it became clear that bills restricting diversity, equity and inclusion in education were going to be passed by the state Legislature.

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Now, Ali-Khan, who specializes in teaching critical multiculturalism, is leaving to take a job at Molloy University — a private university in New York — in August.

She isn’t the only one.

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