Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced to staff Monday that it was changing hiring requirements so they no longer include a diversity, inclusion, and belonging statement, according to The Boston Globe.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the university’s largest department, has required diversity statements for new hires for the past five years, according to the Globe. Staff and faculty learned this week, however, that the school was dropping the requirement and would now ask applicants to tenure-track positions for a “service statement” that “describes efforts to strengthen academic communities, e.g. department, institution, and/or professional societies.”
Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School, wrote in an April op-ed for the Harvard Crimson, a student newspaper, that he believed it was time for the university to do away with the…
