Even before the 2025 Legislature passed a sweeping anti-DEI law, the University of Idaho had eliminated five programs and cut 16 jobs.

Boise State University, meanwhile, had shut down four programs and cut seven positions.

Idaho’s diversity, equity and inclusion ban has had widely varying impacts across the state’s campuses — and in some cases, the changes began before the Legislature acted. Reports to the Legislature — required by the anti-DEI law — provide a school-by-school measuring stick.

The Legislature required colleges and universities to review all offices and programs, staff positions and “trainings, activities, or courses of instruction,” dating back to 2023. The reports chronicle any staff jobs or campus activities that would have violated the DEI ban, had the law been on the books at the time.

Here are thumbnails from the campuses:

U of I. In December 2024, before the Legislature’s DEI crackdown, the State Board of Education approved a policy restricting DEI-based programs. The U of I responded to the State Board within the month. The university closed its Office of Equity and Diversity, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Women’s Center, LGBTQA Office and Black/African American Cultural Center, and eliminated the 16 jobs that supported the programs.

The U of I also eliminated an annual training requirement: a review of the university’s diversity statement. The statement no longer appears on the U of I website.

Boise State. The four program shutdowns — affecting the Student Equity Center and the Gender Equity Center, among other programs — were done by November 2024, even before the State Board passed its DEI policy. As a result, Boise State eliminated seven jobs. But the university later created three new positions, partly to staff its new Student Connections and Support Center, which was designed to replace the equity centers.

Boise State also tweaked its new student orientation leader training program. One change eliminated a slide “referencing cultural differences of a wide breadth such as communication style, music choices, religion, race, gender, class, family background.”

Idaho State University. Like Boise State, Idaho State made its changes before the State Board’s mandate. Idaho State closed its Diversity Resource Center and Janet C. Anderson Gender Resource Center in November 2024 — setting up a holistic center designed to support all students. The moves did not affect staffing; two employees were reassigned.

Idaho State closed its Office of Equity and Inclusion. A new Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX, reporting directly to the president, “continues important compliance responsibilities.”

Lewis-Clark State College. No changes in programs, staffing or training.

College of Western Idaho. Before the 2025 law went into effect, CWI closed two programs tailored to Hispanic students and a third program serving Hispanic employees. In January 2025, CWI also mothballed its Inclusive Excellence Committee in favor of a Campus Community Support and Success Committee.

College of Southern Idaho. No changes in programs, staffing or training. Still, CSI said it would contract with a new vendor, allowing the college to “edit and modify purchased trainings to guarantee compliance with state-level statutes.”

North Idaho College. NIC closed its diversity council in the spring of 2025.

College of Eastern Idaho. The college said it “halted” all activities that could be defined as promoting DEI — such as its Unity Committee. Before that May 2025 decision, the college eliminated a part-time job in its multicultural office.

CEI also cut an unconscious bias training segment from mandatory annual staff development.