When colleges and universities began using “diversity statements” about ten years ago to weed out prospective faculty members who weren’t thoroughly dedicated to the leftist agenda, everyone could see what was going on. Higher education had become a closed shop. You were not wanted unless you were a true believer, no matter what your academic field. Wanna teach geology here? First prove to us your commitment to diversity!
Now, diversity statements are under fire and a number of schools have stopped requiring them.
That’s good, but in today’s Martin Center article, Timothy Minella of the Goldwater Institute argues that it’s not nearly sufficient. He writes, “Diversity statements thus made a relatively uncontroversial target to demonstrate liberal concern for the excesses of DEI without opposing DEI altogether.”
Just as the “progressives” don’t want to give up on racial preferences in admissions and are finding subterfuges to avoid the Supreme Court’s ruling, so have college administrators found ways to continue weeding out ideological undesirables without making applicants submit a diversity statement.
He continues:
Furthermore, despite on-the-record avowals from schools that they have abandoned diversity statements, disturbing reports indicate that some of these same institutions are burying diversity-statement requirements within the application process, away from online application systems that the public can scrutinize.
The fight to rid our colleges and universities of indoctrination has just begun.