Organizations frequently publish public declarations of their support for diversity, equity, and inclusion. A new study ...

Professor Patrick Lawrence argues legislation on the agenda for a House committee meeting Wednesday, March 19, 2025, violate First Amendment free speech rights. (Stock photo by Getty Images) ...

Of all the challenges facing higher education, the issue that is dominating the headlines is the so-called “threat” of diversity statements. Once considered a useful tool to help colleges and ...

The University of California (UC) has become the latest high-profile school to drop diversity statements from its hiring practices. On Wednesday, the university’s provost Katherine S. Newman sent out ...

DEI – diversity, equity, and inclusion – in American universities is not just worse than you think; it’s worse than you will believe. It isn’t just that the students won’t allow the college to do ...

The University of California system has wisely decided this month to end its requirement that faculty job applicants submit a “diversity statement.” While it’s a reasonable goal to expect a university ...

To the editor: While I don’t dispute Duncan Hosie’s contention that requiring diversity statements in the University of California faculty hiring process can devolve into “ideological litmus tests — ...

F rom 2016 to 2022, most University of California campuses participated in an experimental program, funded by the state Legislature, to use diversity, equity, and inclusion statements as the first cut ...

The University of Michigan announced it will no longer require applicants for faculty jobs, promotions and tenure to submit statements on their commitment to diversity. Provost Laurie McCauley made ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that it will no longer require diversity statements from prospective faculty. According to The Hill, the school said President Sally ...