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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.
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@powellAtlantic For a 2021 cluster hire in psych, Vanderbilt University's received over 400 job applicants. The search team cut the pool to 50-60 based on DEI statements alone. They used Berkeley's rubric—the one that penalizes candidates who for saying they want to "treat everyone the same."
@JohnDSailer - John Sailer
In 2020, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center lead a cluster hire—noting its commitment "to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, antiracism, and inclusion." The guidelines for writing a DEI statement notes that that might including discussing one's understanding of "antiracism, decolonization, bias mitigation, social justice, etc."
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The NIH is funding DEI cluster hiring at universities around the country—to the tune of $241 million. For every job created through the grant, DEI statements mandatory and heavily weighed. When I FOIAed the DEI statement rubrics used by two of the grantee institutions, I learned—with no surprise—that they used UC Berkeley's rubric.
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@powellAtlantic Here's a full writeup @unherd. I conclude: As a consequence of these measures, trust in higher education will likely continue to fall, owing in part to a sense that some views are simply not tolerated. https://unherd.com/thepost/american-colleges-embrace-californias-dei-model/
