More Elite Colleges Are Abandoning DEI Hiring Mandates
“Some elite universities are clawing back diversity statements, and others will likely follow. Why? Because a lot of faculty of all political stripes hate the policy”
This is the way the wind is blowing. For much of the country, DEI is on its way out the door.
The College Fix reports:
‘Momentum undeniably growing’: More elite colleges look to end DEI hiring mandates
Earlier this month, the Cornell Free Speech Alliance sent a memo to supporters with apparent good news — the Ivy League university had recently removed information and links about mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion statements from faculty recruitment and hiring webpages.
“When Will Cornell terminate its use of DEI statements? Based on the above reported observation,” the memo stated, “CFSA hopes the answer is NOW!”
Cornell spokesperson Lindsey Knewstub told The College Fix the university has no comment on the matter at this time.
But if Cornell does officially scrap its requirements, it would not be the first elite institution to end the use of mandatory DEI statements as part of the hiring decision process. In May, MIT ended the practice. In early June, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences followed suit.
“The momentum is undeniably growing,” said scholar John Sailer, who over the last year has focused his extensive research on how DEI has embedded itself in higher education.
While many public universities in recent years have been forced to end mandatory diversity statements due to legislation or Board of Trustees directives in states such as Florida, Texas, North Carolina and elsewhere, private elite institutions are immune to such controls.
But Sailer, in an email to The College Fix, said more elite institutions will likely end the practice.
“Some elite universities are clawing back diversity statements, and others will likely follow. Why? Because a lot of faculty of all political stripes hate the policy,” said Sailer, a senior fellow at the National Association of Scholars.
“It’s almost impossible to justify with a straight face. Even Paulette Granberry Russell, the president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, could only muster up a half-hearted defense of the policy when asked about it by the New York Times.”
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This is nice, no question, but they’re not going to re-hire those who’ve already departed rather than submit.
OK now let’s do Hamas-funding disclosures.
And then CCP-funding
wrong!!!!
it is affirmative action by another name;extension
and that hasnt and wont change
lefty wants you to think its over/ending
slavery is slavery and many poc allll of leftists think its whiteys turn
It’s good that they’re getting rid of overt DEI stuff but don’t forget that they had been blackballing anyone even slightly to the right of center for decades before DEI statements were even a thing.
IOW: Don’t expect any actual improvement after this purely cosmetic change.
Time to cancel DEI/CRT for toxic anti-white rhetoric. DEI/CRT is such a fraud.
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.”
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate November 28, 1998.
I don’t believe it. They’re just rebranding or hiding it behind unwritten requirements that everyone knows apply
They’re just burying the evidence. With DEI statements, there’s an explicit committee that evaluates them and you can look at the records of that committee and find evidence of discrimination. When they make it less formal, they’ll be able to discriminate nearly as much and it will be much harder to pinpoint.