This is fascinating. More than 100 Yale professors have called for an audit of the university's sprawling bureaucracy.
The audit, they say, would "preempt potential federal intervention" and send the message: "Yale prioritizes intellectual vitality over bureaucratic inertia."
John Sailer
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- NEW: The Texas A&M University System has ended the use of DEI statements in both admissions and faculty hiring. “No university or agency in the A&M System will admit any student, nor hire any employee based on any factor other than merit.”
- NEW: MIT has banned the use of DEI statements for faculty hiring and promotions. This is huge, a turning point — the policy, functionally an ideological weed-out tool, is widely unpopular in academia, but MIT is the first elite private institution to pull the plug.
- At the NIH, the Distinguished Scholars Program hires scientists who show a “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Through a public records request, I’ve acquired redacted NIH hiring documents that show what this criterion looks like in practice. 🧵
- NEW: Louis Galarowicz (@NASorg) and I have acquired a trove of records from University of Colorado, Boulder, that show how the entire university coordinated to advance a system of brazen race-based hiring. The receipts are pretty astonishing... 🧵
- SCOOP: The NIH is giving $250m to universities to hire medical scientists who show “an interest in DEI.” The NIH says the program doesn't “discriminate against any group.” Public records tell a different story. As one email put it, “I don’t want to hire white men for sure."
- In the NYT, @powellAtlantic notes that UC Berkeley carried out a cluster hire—eliminating 75% of faculty job applicants based on DEI statement alone. The second photo is Berkeley's own description. Universities around the U.S. have embraced this model. A quick thread.
- The New York Times notes that many California universities publicly post their rubric for assessing DEI. Berkeley’s gives a low score if you say you prefer to “treat everyone the same.” Remarkably, this rubric is used across the country. Here are just three examples.
- Actual quiz question at UT Austin: Which group is most likely to violate others' rights with "violence, deceit, irresponsibility, and a lack of remorse?" Answer: "wealthy white men." freebeacon.com/campus/wealthy…
- Notable reporting from Emily Kopp. A study purported to show that mortality is higher for black infants seen by white doctors. By now, the issues with this study are widely known. FOIAed notes show how the authors in fact cut points that they said "undermined the narrative."
- HUGE NEWS: The University of California Board of Regents just ended the use diversity statements in faculty hiring throughout the system. “To be clear, stand-alone diversity statements will no longer be permitted in recruitments,” the system’s provost said in a letter today.
- The term “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) is meant to sound unambiguously beneficent. But many of the professors I spoke with understand that DEI instead implies a set of controversial political and social views. My latest in @TheFP. 🧵
- I don't think many will admit this, but for a lot of those in academia, maybe even a majority, I suspect the reaction to Trump's order on DEI was a big a sigh of relief.
- Do universities discriminate against white candidates? Yes. Especially when hiring professors focused on identity/social justice. These positions give universities plausible deniability for race-based hiring, which is common in academia. I have receipts. 🧵




















