By: Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / September 13, 2023 Read more at https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/13/the-dei-racket-transformed-our-colleges-universities-but-tide-could-be-turning/ Fealty to DEI dogma has become practically mandatory at all levels of higher education, a report in The New York Times shows. Pictured: Students at UC Berkeley, whose DEI hiring requirements have been adopted by universities and colleges throughout the U.S., pass under Sather Gate on…
Yoel Inbar, a noted psychology professor at the University of Toronto, figured he might be teaching this fall at UCLA. Last year, the university’s psychology department offered his female partner a faculty appointment. Now the department was interested in recruiting him as a so-called partner hire, a common practice in academia. The university asked him to fill out the requisite papers, including a statement that affirmed his belief and work in diversity, equity and inclusion. He flew out and me
Diversity statements tend to run about a page or so long and ask candidates to describe how they would contribute to campus diversity, often seeking examples of how the faculty member has fostered an inclusive or anti-racist learning environment.