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Utah’s higher ed board says it is working with schools to wind down their use. Democrats disagree with Gov. Spencer Cox after he said they were ‘political.’
Spencer Cox said the Utah Legislature plans to take the issue up during its next session that starts in January. Read more on what Cox thinks about DEI on college campuses.
This is just the latest manifestation of a coordinated attack on a made-up problem that the far right is trying to “solve.” | Opinion
Insect ecologists shouldn’t have to have a record of DEI in order to be hired to teach. But that’s where much of higher ed is these days. Read more.
Yoel Inbar, a noted psychology professor at the University of Toronto, figured he might be teaching this fall at UCLA. Last year, the university’s psychology department offered his female partner a faculty appointment. Now the department was interested in recruiting him as a so-called partner hire, a common practice in academia. The university asked him to fill out the requisite papers, including a statement that affirmed his belief and work in diversity, equity and inclusion. He flew out and me