Racial diversity

Six universities in the Mountain West are among the schools under investigation for participating in a program aimed at helping minority students earn doctoral degrees in business.

The new center aims to fill some of the same needs the Multicultural Affairs Office did, without a specific focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. It was created in response to the Wyoming Legislature pulling funding for DEI programs at UW.

The change comes after legislative cuts led the school to eliminate many of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. UW claims the changes are meant to respond to those cuts.

The state's senior population is rising and is expected to reach 20 percent of the total population by 2030 if trends continue. Since 2010, the growth of minority populations, namely those who are of two or more races and Hispanic and Latinx, have almost exclusively been responsible for Wyoming's population growth.

A new analysis on diversity in state supreme courts shows that many do not have a single justice identifying as a person of color. That’s the case in most of the Mountain West.

Racial diversity is not one of the things for which Wyoming is best known. According to census data, only one-point-five percent of the state’s population…