Texas Tech Drops Diversity Statement Requirement for Prospective Faculty Members
"These statements clearly encourage a narrow focus on race and gender and open the door for search committees to screen candidates by political association."...
"These statements clearly encourage a narrow focus on race and gender and open the door for search committees to screen candidates by political association."...
"what happened at Hamline is the natural consequence of creating and empowering DEI Inc within a university campus"...
“We, the faculty of Hamline University, stand for both academic freedom and the education of all students”...
Wax filing: “The Dean’s charges are nothing more than an attempt to use the sanction process … as a means of punishing and silencing the most powerful dissenting voice on campus and preventing students from being exposed to important conservative ideas.”...
"MIT students show worrying signs of intolerance, and MIT appears to be failing to teach them the value of academic freedom"...
“It was never our intent to suggest that academic freedom is of lower concern or value than our students — care does not ‘supersede’ academic freedom, the two coexist.”...
Looks like DeSantis is gathering info to gut the DEI bureaucracy, which could achieve the goals of The Stop Woke Act without dictating what professors can say or teach, and possibly insulating the reforms from the type of judicial injunction already granted....
Prof. Jacobson: "At Cornell, they now require DEI statements from all new hires, faculty hires, and all faculty promotions. So as warped as the ideological outlook is among faculty in universities, it’s going to get worse...
“one of the most egregious violations of academic freedom in recent memory” ...
“To the extent there are clues in the existing data, cultural forces in the general public seem to create more discomfort than just on-campus interactions.”...
"Freedom is a culture, not merely a set of rules, and a culture must be nurtured."...
"I can’t be seen on the program with right-wing nutjobs"...
"the two-day event has already prompted controversy and ad hominem attacks"...
“My hands were just shaking, like I just really didn’t know how to react, what to say, what to do and I just felt alone”...
"Over 30 percent of professors are prepared to limit academic freedom and “cancel” their colleagues out of a commitment to their political views on social justice."...
"The substantive and procedural problems with the proceedings instituted by Dean Ruger are immense and require immediate rectification ...
"After pushback over the book covers, the dean announced in an email to students that the covers will be redesigned."...
"It’s hard not to see these as ideological litmus tests."...
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