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Nearly 20 percent of faculty jobs in the U.S. require diversity pledge: American Enterprise Institute Report. Researchers say that is a conservative estimate
The College Fix ^ | 11/30/2021 | Nicholas Kelley

Posted on 11/30/2021 10:19:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Researchers say that is a conservative estimate

A new report from the American Enterprise Institute found that nearly 20 percent of university faculty job listings require a pledge of support for diversity.

“Across all 999 jobs [reviewed by the think tank], we find that 19 percent require diversity statements, while 68 percent include the terms ‘diversity’ or ‘diverse’ in some fashion, often as a way of describing the university environment,” the report said.

And the researchers told The College Fix that the number is a conservative estimate and they were not surprised with the results.

“I was not surprised to learn that 1 in 5 jobs require diversity statements,” James Paul told The College Fix via an email interview. “But we had a conservative system for identifying such requirements, and I’m sure that our counts are a lower-bound estimate.”

Paul is also the research director for the Educational Freedom Institute. He conducted the research with University of Arkansas Professor Robert Maranto.

Paul’s research did not capture jobs that used related terms such as “antiracism” or asked applicants to have research on topics such as immigration or refugees. The researchers looked at both four-year colleges and community colleges.

“A job posting needed to explicitly mention ‘diversity’ or ‘diverse’ in order for us to code it as requiring such a statement,” Paul said. “If a job posting required an equity statement, or a statement of anti-racism, we did not capture it in our paper. This makes our estimates conservative, but also more objective and replicable.”

Examples cited in the paper include: “How do you think about diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], including factors that influence underrepresentation of particular groups in academia, and the experiences of individuals from particular groups within academia?” and “Coming into a new institution will involve changes and being busy! Please let us know how you plan to integrate DEI into your role as a faculty member, including new or existing initiatives you would like to be involved with.”

The research paper said that traditionally right-leaning fields such as the hard sciences and engineering also require diversity statements.

“Prestigious universities are significantly more likely to have DEI requirements than nonprestigious universities,” the paper said. “Perhaps surprisingly, these statements are as prevalent in STEM fields as in the humanities and social sciences, once controls are accounted for.”

UCLA uses a diversity rubric in hiring process

The report said that as of 2019, the University of California system required diversity statements on eight of 10 campuses.

One school, the University of California Los Angeles, judges job applicants on a diversity rubric.

The College Fix emailed UCLA twice in the past two weeks to ask for comment about its hiring and the AEI report.

The College Fix emailed the general Strategic Communications’ office email and both media relations directors, Melissa Abraham and Bill Kisliuk, but did not receive a response.

The media team did not respond to questions about if applicants must sign a pledge in support of diversity and if the office could share research on how diversity statements have helped students and improved the quality of faculty.

The Fix asked if the university had any concerns that diversity statements could harm free speech or dissuade conservative applicants.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: antipope; college; diversity; faculty; genderdysphoria; homofascism; homosexualagenda; muslimbrotherhood; romancatholicism

1 posted on 11/30/2021 10:19:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 11/30/2021 10:20:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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I pledge to battle against all libtards no matter their diversity 🤪

How’s that?


3 posted on 11/30/2021 10:21:19 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: SeekAndFind

More than 80% of faculty jobs require NO diversity pledge. 😊🙌


4 posted on 11/30/2021 10:24:00 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Please let us know how you plan to integrate DEI into your role as a faculty member, including new or existing initiatives you would like to be involved with WHITE DEVILS plan to off yourselves.”
5 posted on 11/30/2021 10:25:13 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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Ein Reich, Ein Volk...


6 posted on 11/30/2021 10:27:06 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Ironically that people who spout in favor of diversity, certainly don’t want “diversity of opinions”. You march in lockstep with them, or else.


7 posted on 11/30/2021 10:29:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Would mean nothing to me if I had to do it.

Just like swearing to uphold the Constitution means nothing to Libtard Presidents, Congresscritters, and Judges.


8 posted on 11/30/2021 10:30:14 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for oPeace is like breathing for food. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Participation A’s for all students is coming (or here).


9 posted on 11/30/2021 10:32:59 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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Equity would require these overpaid Marxists to turn over their positions to BIPOCs. Immediately.


10 posted on 11/30/2021 10:33:56 AM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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I am of the opinion that diversity only brings value when there is a need to protect against loss (i.e. holding stocks). Excellence should be the targeted practice when performance is the desired value.


11 posted on 11/30/2021 10:34:46 AM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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Equity requires the final solution for all white and Asian folks.

If they are free range there is always the danger that somewhere a white or Asian person might perform better than “equal”.


12 posted on 11/30/2021 10:36:51 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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When they say “diversity,” I don’t think they know what that word means.


13 posted on 11/30/2021 11:16:16 AM PST by fwdude
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I remember when college professors used to have hissy fits during the Cold War if required to take “loalty oaths” to the Constitution.

Apparently they won that battle 60-some years ago. Now look.


14 posted on 11/30/2021 2:12:22 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. --Frederick Douglass)
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