It depends. Senate Bill 17 prohibits institutions from requiring employees to attend trainings designed or implemented in reference to race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation, unless the training is required under federal or state law. This prohibition applies to university-led trainings and those offered by third parties. On the other hand, voluntary training through third parties may be permissible for the professional development of individual employees. An employee who seeks institutional support, such as cost of attendance, must articulate a direct professional connection between the third-party training and the employee’s job responsibilities. Institutions should not contract directly with DEI programmers for voluntary or mandatory training on campus as that would constitute an impermissible outsourcing of DEI work.