DEI in university hiring

A friend of mine here on Substack sent me this article. It sounds just like what my School at ASU did this spring. What my School did was link diversity, equity, and inclusion rights to ASU’s charter values. That means my School is claiming, contrary to what ASU says publicly about no longer using DEI in hiring, that we are required by ASU’s values to impose DEI in hiring.

Will anything be done to correct this? No.

“The University of Oregon requires all departments seeking to hire new faculty to create an “Institutional Hiring Proposal” to defend the need for a new employee. A template is provided, with a series of questions about the proposed position. Notably, the template requires every department to address concerns related to “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” The template’s DEI section first asks departments to review the relevant “Field Availability Estimates” data, which breaks down the gender and racial demographics of terminal-degree holders in each academic subject. Conducting an FAE review, according to the provost’s office, is an “[e]xpected [p]ractice” to ensure “strong, diverse applicant pools.” After looking at that data, the template prompts departments to outline the “robust active recruitment work” they intend to pursue in furtherance of DEI goals, and how they will overcome “potential challenges.”

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