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Is This Progress? Harvard Drops DEI Pledge Requirement for Largest Faculty – HotAir

Have the Poison Ivies finally realized how deep the rot of their radical-progressive enforcement of DEI runs? After months of anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns and “occupations,” at least one of these schools may have taken a genuine step toward reform. Yesterday, Harvard’s largest faculty group dumped its requirement of a DEI pledge from all applicants, and replaced it with a commitment to openness and diversity of viewpoints from finalists.

Is this really change? It may be a step in the right direction, but if so, it’s a very small step:

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will stop requiring a diversity, inclusion, and belonging statement as part of its faculty hiring process, Dean of Faculty Affairs and Planning Nina Zipser announced in a Monday morning email.

Zipser wrote that she and FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra “made this change in response to feedback from numerous…

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