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Trump’s controversial diversity training order is dead – or is it? Colleges are still feeling its effects. Chris Quintana, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT An overturned executive order from President Trump focused on banning some forms of diversity training is still sparking debate on college campuses.  Many universities scrambled to comply with the controversial order last year, which would have prevented the federal government and its contractors from offering diversity training that Trump had called divisive. Biden has since overturned the order, but it had alre...

'Unsafe just because they disagree': University of Iowa dean apologizes for infringing on rights of conservatives on campus The Iowa House of Representatives had launched an investigation after the university's College of Dentistry spoke out against a Trump administration executive order last fall and threatened a student with a disciplinary hearing after he spoke out in defense of the Trump administration's actions. Des Moines Register Officials with the University of Iowa's College of Dentistry had objected to Trump's "Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping," which called fo...

IOWA CITY - Back in May, University of Iowa third-year College of Dentistry student Chichi Adeleke said in a promotional video for the institution, 'The reason I chose Iowa is simple. I was beyond impressed.'

IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa and its College of Dentistry are being squeezed by critics on both sides over their handling of a White House executive order in the fall barring certain types of diversity training and, more broadly, over their handling of diversity and free speech. “When the (College of Dentistry) and the university were put to the test, and their core values of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ were challenged, they failed to uphold these values,” according to a petition being circulated by an “Action UIowa Task Force” of students planning a Friday walkout a...