The University of California (UC) System announced on 19 March that it would end mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion statements in hiring considerations. “To be clear, stand-alone diversity statements will no longer be permitted in recruitments,” UC System Provost Katherine Newman wrote in a letter to UC administrators.
The UC System’s announcement is a big deal, even compared to other major universities that have recently rolled back DEI programmes. That’s because the University of California at Berkeley was one of the key institutions that introduced diversity considerations in hiring rubrics, where applicants could lose points for stating that they will treat all students equally regardless of race.
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Neetu Arnold is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute.
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