It only took 66 signatures on the petition to cancel this professor’s potential employment.
Reason reports:
UCLA Declined To Hire a Professor After Students Denounced His Mild DEI CriticismYoel Inbar is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He was slated to join the University of California at Los Angeles as a tenured professor of psychology, but the offer failed to materialize after 66 students signed a petition urging the administration not to hire him.The students’ issue with Inbar? In an episode of his podcast Two Psychologists Four Beers, Inbar mildly criticized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements as used by university administrations to screen potential hires. He described DEI statements as compelled speech and empty “value signaling.””It is not clear what good they do,” said Inbar.His comments were quoted in the student petition, which essentially confirms the very criticism Inbar was making of DEI statements: The students appear to take the view that opposition to DEI statements should in fact be grounds for nonemployment.”Given the express priority of our university to consider DEI efforts and experiences in the faculty search and hiring process, we are adamant that the hiring committee enforce UCLA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Office message,” the petition concludes, “by electing to not extend a job offer to Dr. Yoel Inbar.”
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