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 mandatesEarlier 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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