The times are changing, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives are dying.

More than a dozen states have taking a stand against DEI being used at colleges and universities, some even before the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action.

Among them are Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Utah, and Wyoming who signed legislation against DEI practices a year after Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and North Dakota did the same.

Even Democrat Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed anti-DEI legislation, though she said that she had some concerns.

“While I have concerns about this legislation, I don’t believe that the conduct targeted in this legislation occurs in our universities,” she said, Fox News reported.

In January, Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation that will prevent colleges and universities from engaging in “discriminatory practices” including those “that an individual, by virtue of the individual’s personal identity characteristics, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other individuals with the same personal identity characteristics.”

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama signed SB 129 in March.

The legislation prevents certain DEI offices, and the “promotion, endorsement, and affirmation of certain divisive concepts in certain public settings.”

It also bans “divisive concepts,” such as “that any individual should accept, acknowledge, affirm, or assent to a sense of guilt, complicity, or a need to apologize on the basis of his or her race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin” and “that meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist.”

Similarly in March Indiana adopted legislation that says educators”shall not promote in any course certain concepts related to race or sex.”

In May, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed funding legislation that prohibits “any effort to promote, as the official position of the public institution of higher education, a particular, widely contested opinion referencing unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, transgender ideology, microaggressions, group marginalization, antiracism, systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, nee-pronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender theory, racial privilege, sexual privilege, or any related formulation of these concepts.” 

And Idaho passed legislation that said colleges and universities may not “require specific structures or activities related to DEI.”