Weber State University says it will be “more nuanced” in how it adheres to Utah’s ban on higher education diversity initiatives after critics accused the school of going beyond what is required when it gave a guest speaker a list of banned words.

The Ogden school faced scrutiny last week when Darcie Little Badger , a member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas , spoke out about how she felt compelled to cancel her planned speaking appearance during Weber State’s annual Native symposium over the list of “prohibited words and concepts.” Included among them: equity, diversity and inclusion (DEI), anti-racism, bias, oppression and intersectionality.

The list specifically cited HB261, which is Utah’s anti-DEI law that passed last year . Under the measure, schools are prohibited from

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