Free Speech Group at Cornell Claims School is Using DEI Policies to Reject Faculty Candidates
“Without major reforms, Cornell faces increasing risk of legal jeopardy, reputational damage, and loss of academic legitimacy.”
The left never admits it, but this is kind of the whole point of DEI policies.
The New York Post reports:
Cornell University using DEI policy to reject faculty candidates for not ‘conforming,’ group claims
Cornell University is “corrupting” its science, math and engineering programs by using its “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policy to reject a huge portion of candidates for faculty jobs because their views are deemed counter to the school’s left-leaning “ideological orthodoxy,” a merit-based campus advocacy group alleged after reviewing bombshell leaked documents.
A report by the Cornell Free Speech Alliance cities “smoking gun” evidence that the “DEI Statements” of prospective professors were used to reject 21% of applicants in a recent faculty search in a hard science field.
The Upstate New York Ivy no longer requires candidates to submit explanations of how they would advance Cornell’s commitment to the principle of DEI — but such forms were used against the job hopefuls anyway, the Free Speech Alliance said.
The rejections came without fairly considering the candidates’ academic credentials, research, or teaching abilities, the group alleged.
The analysis was based on whistleblower documents and internal reports provided to the alliance by Cornell staffers, according to the Free Speech Alliance
The DEI policy is discriminatory and should be scrapped, said the Free Speech Alliance said.
“Cornell has an opportunity to reverse course and demonstrate principled leadership by loudly and publicly abolishing these pernicious DEI policies,” said Free Speech Alliance board member and Cornell alum Carl Neuss.
“Without major reforms, Cornell faces increasing risk of legal jeopardy, reputational damage, and loss of academic legitimacy. We urge the university to act before it’s too late,” added Neuss.
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Hive mind. No graduation without indoctrination. The opposite of “diversity” of thought.
DEI is such a fraud.
1+1= racism
2+2= more racism
etc etc
lefty is a sick uuucker
and we are allowing them via our tax money to stay in power
DEI needs to outlawed in hiring as violating the civil rights of applicants. It is being used to screen applicants based on protected viewpoints such as religious beliefs.
Certain question are not allowed to be asked during the hiring process as violations of constitutionally protected rights. DEI statements are used as a means of circumventing such limitations.
That’s generally how DEI statements have been used, as a first screen. Nobody makes it to further review of their credentials without ranking in the top of the DEI statements.
In this regard Cornell’s DEI screen was somewhat lenient, passing 79% on to further review. Of course the whole thing is very damaging. Pure damage in many ways, as was intended by those who pushed for this damage to our universities for decades.
law
medical
education
media
no real credential is needed if you are a dem
they just rubber stamp you into the club
Human socialization instincts are exploitable, which is why relatively small numbers of zealots can have such a disproportionately significant influence. Anxiety flourishes in a moral/ethical morass, but many try to find some initial relief from this by aligning with anyone who strongly claims to know the way out. Followership capacities are indeed helpful in hunter/gatherer tribes facing the realities of migration. However, our technology has amplified this process to very destructive levels.