Last month, several campus organizations — including the Black Student Union, Minority Women’s Movement, and Black Men in Leadership — came together at an event to voice concerns about how changes to DEI initiatives could impact their futures.

Those concerns are beginning to materialize following the Department of Education’s “Dear Colleague” letter sent to LSU, commonly referred to as the DOE letter.

Bella Porche, an executive member of Injustice Reform, a new student organization working to establish itself on campus, speaks on the issue.

“We were proposed about $1,200 for our funding,” Porche said. “You have to apply each semester for the funding, so we wanted to use all the funding we had.”

That funding has now been rescinded in response to the new DEI policies, leaving Porche and her organization uncertain about how they will support future events and programming.

The PSIF committee declined to comment directly, but in a public statement said it is “moving forward in alignment with the Dear Colleague letter and the board resolution.”