MIT Confirms it will no longer require diversity statements for hiring

[OSR stands with Israel]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/mit-diversity-statements-faculty-hiring.html

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said on Monday that it would no longer require candidates applying for faculty positions to write diversity statements, which have been denounced by conservatives and free-speech advocates as forcing a kind of ideological conformity.

In their statements, generally a page-long, candidates were required to explain how they would enhance the university’s commitment to diversity.

Such statements have become enshrined in faculty hiring at many elite public and private universities, as well as in corporate life. Academics have defended them as necessary in judging whether a faculty member can reach out to an increasingly diverse student body.

In announcing the change, M.I.T.’s president, Sally Kornbluth, said diversity statements constituted a form of compelled speech that do not work.

So not a full scale removal of DEI but effectively a scale back of it

[OSR stands with Israel]

     Encouraging to see this happen. I wonder if the recent pro-Hamas student protests revealing how out-of-touch universities have become with the general population played a role in encouraging them to roll back some of the features that helped create this situation.

Yeah, people are protesting Israel because le woke DEI lmao.

Have not at all been impressed by your contributions of late.

No , it’s that the driving factor behind DEI and these protests are similar which is how insanely left wing liberal arts programs have become .