Professors at the University of Florida, Florida State University and Florida International University filed the lawsuit in January in federal court in Tallahassee and are seeking a preliminary injunction to block two key parts of the law.
One disputed part of the law prevents state funding for university programs that advocate for “diversity, equity and inclusion or promote or engage in political or social activism.” The other part includes a ban on general-education courses that include curriculums that teach “identity politics” or that are “based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities.”
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