Creating a safe, welcoming and rich academic environment is an ongoing process that requires the engagement, commitment and input of all students, faculty and staff within our community. The ...

First, they threaten academic freedom and free expression ... At the University of New Mexico, for example, one NIH-funded faculty hiring program used diversity statements as a facially legal way to ...

The UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education has published a paper and several responses exploring the effect of written statements by applicants for UC faculty positions about how their ...

For example, being a veteran or in active military service may fit some schools’ diversity statement prompts but not others. In the latter cases, it may be best to highlight this aspect of your ...

and points of view without requiring diversity statements.” The letter did not explicitly mention the Trump administration. But at an emergency meeting earlier this week of the university’s systemwide ...

for example, prescriptively defined "diversity," "equity" and "inclusion" in official documents, then judged applicants according to their adherence. Many positions used diversity statements as an ...