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This is a public university in California. The UC system decides, and that's presumably someone in the UC staff responsible for generating policy for DEI initiatives.

And since this is a public uni it has to comply with state and federal rules. UC can choose whatever it wants but if the laws shift on the state level it's moot; Texas is doing something along those lines now...

> who defines inappropiate?

The country laws, the company leadership, the hiring manager. That are the people and mechanisms that define what is appropriate or not for a job. (More people and more levels of legality may be involved).

> Who defines inappropriate?

The boss.

who employs the boss? The Investor. Who's the biggest investors? blackrock fidelity vanguard and state street use our pensions and 401ks to influence companies to do their bidding.

The boss is always whoever controls the capital, hence why it's called capitalism.