How DEI Becomes Discrimination – WSJ

In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), the Supreme Court held that colleges and universities couldn t engage in racial discrimination in the name of diversity. The 45-year-old dispensation from civil-rights law that the court effectively overturned had never applied to employment decisions. But its end ought to provoke institutions to scale back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives more broadly. Some appear to be doing so: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard said recently they would no longer require diversity statements from prospective hires.

Yet there is evidence that many universities have engaged in outright racial preferences under the aegis of DEI. Hundreds of documents that I acquired through public-records requests provide a rare paper trail of universities closely scrutinizing the race of faculty job applicants. The practice not only appears widespread; it is encouraged and funded by the federal government.

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John Sailer.

Well my small but formerly cute university indulged in sex and racial discrimination in hiring, while taking fairly obvious steps to create a pretext of not doing so. Everybody does it was the frequently heard defense. I’m sure they do. But as one can imagine, it is not my problem now.