Flip Tanedo

Flip Tanedo, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy(UCR/Stan Lim)
Author Bio

Flip Tanedo is an associate professor of physics at the University of California, Riverside, a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.

January 21, 2026

A merit Stockholm Syndrome fuels DEI backlash

The year 2025 will be remembered as the year that universities cut minority recruitment programs, closed student racial affinity groups, and censored their websites of the word diversity. These are not just responses to The Trump administration freezing funding…