DEI news that is out of the ordinary — at least in these times when DEI policies are under attack. News from the Southwest:

“A group of University of New Mexico School of Law alumni and others are demanding that the university not renew the contract of the law school’s current dean, Camille Carey.

At a Monday press conference on the UNM campus, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center attorney Jessica Martinez and others cited multiple concerns, especially what organizers described as a decline in students from New Mexico studying at the School of Law.

Traditionally, about 12 percent of each class were nonresidents,' Martinez said. Today, roughly one-third of the classes of 2026 and 2027 are not residents.’

The decline of in-state students has contributed to a corresponding drop in Hispano and Native American students, organizers said.”

See also Christine Charnosky at Law.com (registration required).

Dean Carey’s profile on the UNM website lists an impressive set of credentials. The Karelitz Chair in Evidence and Procedure, Dean Carey joined the UNM Law Faculty in 2009 and teaches Torts, Advanced Torts, and Civil Procedure.  She has also taught Domestic Violence and Immigrants’ Rights and in the Clinical Law Program. a graduate of UCLA Law, Dean Carey began her teaching career at Yale Law School, where she was a Robert M. Cover Teaching Fellow and Clinical Lecturer. At Yale, she established Domestic Violence Clinic. The Clinic represented clients in tort, family law, immigration, housing, public benefit, unfair trade practice, and other related claims. She also taught in Yale’s Community Lawyering Clinic.