{"id":7679,"date":"2025-10-03T02:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:39:20","slug":"rogers-discusses-policy-shifts-at-emory-on-11alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/10\/03\/rogers-discusses-policy-shifts-at-emory-on-11alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Discusses Policy Shifts at Emory on &#8217;11Alive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/10\/rogers-11-alive-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/10\/rogers-11-alive-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/10\/rogers-11-alive-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/10\/rogers-11-alive-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/10\/rogers-11-alive-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/10\/rogers-11-alive.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/rogers-thomas.html\">Thomas D. Rogers<\/a>, Professor of Latin American History and member of the executive committee of the Emory chapter of the\u00a0American Association of University Professors (AAUP),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/video\/news\/local\/11alive-news-the-take-emory-dismantles-dei-programs-9825\/85-4d149136-f2ee-45f7-9530-ec41bb3da725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently appeared<\/a>\u00a0on Atlanta&#8217;s 11Alive to discuss Emory&#8217;s decision to &#8220;discontinue current DEI offices and programs&#8221; on campus. That decision was made in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2025\/09\/er_dei_update_03-09-2025\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement<\/a>\u00a0by Interim President Leah Ward Sears at the beginning of September. Rogers relayed students&#8217; concerns about how these changes will affect their experience at Emory and discusses the broader political context within which university administrators are operating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View the full interview here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/video\/news\/local\/11alive-news-the-take-emory-dismantles-dei-programs-9825\/85-4d149136-f2ee-45f7-9530-ec41bb3da725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11Alive News: The Take | Emory dismantles DEI programs (9\/8\/25)<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Thomas D. Rogers, Professor of Latin American History and member of the executive committee of the Emory chapter of the\u00a0American Association of University Professors (AAUP),\u00a0recently appeared\u00a0on Atlanta&#8217;s 11Alive to discuss Emory&#8217;s decision to &#8220;discontinue current DEI offices and programs&#8221; on campus. That decision was made in an\u00a0announcement\u00a0by Interim President Leah Ward Sears at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-faculty","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}