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Elite university eliminates DEI hiring
requirement: 'They don't work'

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Posted By: Moritz55, 5/6/2024 8:42:28 PM

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became the first elite institution to scrap diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements from its faculty hiring process. On Sunday, the school confirmed to UnHerd that it was removing a requirement that mandated all prospective faculty submit a diversity, equity and inclusion statement during the hiring process. A university spokesperson told Fox News Digital that "requests for a statement on diversity will no longer be part of applications for any faculty positions at MIT" and added that the decision was made by the school’s president, Sally Kornbluth, with the support of the Provost, Chancellor, and all six academic deans.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Northcross 5/6/2024 8:56:42 PM (No. 1713249)
Looks like they didn't want MIT to forfeit its reputation as a premier technical institution. Either that or alumni and donors weighed in.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 5/6/2024 9:21:57 PM (No. 1713264)
Hiring the incompetent for skin color or other reasons besides merit is extremely counterproductive.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 5/6/2024 9:33:21 PM (No. 1713276)
Finally! The smart people are blowing out the cobwebs and getting with reality.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Omen55 5/6/2024 9:47:02 PM (No. 1713287)
Real lawyers told them how much $$$ the lawsuit will cost.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Catherine 5/6/2024 10:12:29 PM (No. 1713299)
We've been aware of this in the south since the '60's. But things get better over time. Education opportunities for blacks increased and many worked hard for their degrees. Most that I worked with had their own homes and their kids were in school and most got college degrees. Only the democrats work hard to stop this. Gee, wonder why.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 5/6/2024 10:32:05 PM (No. 1713309)
#2, it's been happening for decades. Affirmative Action programs are government mandated racial discrimination.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Trigger2 5/7/2024 4:45:13 AM (No. 1713403)
DEI needs to go. It is all for incompetence.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: NamVet70 5/7/2024 9:22:18 AM (No. 1713565)
Something is seriously wrong with the idea that a university had to try to comply with woke DEI rules before discovering that it was a bad toxic policy. That says something really bad about the intellect and the character of their management. They shouldn't have had to try something like that before rejecting it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Italiano 5/7/2024 9:41:31 AM (No. 1713581)
It was a failure fifty years ago when it was laughingly called Affirmative Action.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: MickTurn 5/7/2024 9:55:45 AM (No. 1713599)
DEI DeadBrained Entitled Idiots
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Reply 11 - Posted by: paral04 5/7/2024 10:33:09 AM (No. 1713629)
Finally! How much more damage does that DEI nonsense do before the rest of the country wake up? We should be focused on excellence not anything else.
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