Amid the Trump administration’s assault on higher education and academic freedom — shaking down institutions like Columbia, targeting pro-Palestinian scholars and students for deportation and ...

The University of California system has ended its use of mandatory diversity statements in faculty hiring, repudiating a controversial practice that it had pioneered and long championed. It’s hard to ...

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 — ...

In 2024, I was honored to deliver the Roscoe Pound Lecture at the University of Nebraska College of Law. The article based on that lecture is now in print, and until the Nebraska Law Review updates ...

More than one out of every five recently posted job advertisements for faculty positions asked for some sort of statement related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to a new report by the ...

When the University of Colorado Boulder launched its mission to weave the philosophies and practices of inclusive excellence across the campus, we at CMDI immediately asked ourselves some critical ...

Private companies with 100+ employers are required to file EEO Reports (EEO stands for “Equal Employment Opportunity”) annually, which contain information about employee diversity. However, companies ...

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 ...

The University of California will no longer require diversity statements for faculty applicants, university leaders announced. The change comes as the Trump administration has threatened to withhold ...

Royce Hall at UCLA. Rubrics used by some UC campuses downgraded candidates applying for professorships whose beliefs included treating "everyone the same." (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Amid the Trump ...