Florida governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed legislation that prohibits state-funded colleges and universities from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

In addition to defunding DEI projects, the law also bars public colleges from infusing critical race theory and related grievance politics ideologies into curricula for general education courses.

“If you look at the way this has actually been implemented across the country, DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination,” DeSantis said at a press conference at New College of Florida in Sarasota. “And that has no place in our public institutions. This bill says the whole experiment with DEI is coming to an end in the state of Florida.”

In January, DeSantis announced a plan to reverse New College’s progressive bent by overhauling its board of trustees, six members of which he replaced with conservative appointees. The DeSantis administration’s main criticism of the school’s trajectory was its embrace of DEI initiatives.