A group of state and local elected officials on Tuesday slammed the University of Pennsylvania for its response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on diversity initiatives in recent weeks, saying the state’s only Ivy League school is preemptively ceding ground to an administration intent on denigrating people of color and their contributions to higher education.

Local officials have made it known to University of Pennsylvania leadership that they’re not happy with how the school scrubbed itself of anything related to diversity, equity or inclusion after an executive order from President Donald Trump.

The University of Pennsylvania has recently been making sweeping changes to how it handles diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — including scrubbing a page on diversity and inclusion from its own website,