Diversity statements—short essays describing faculty ... Documents that I acquired from Texas Tech, for example, showed how one search committee penalized a job candidate for not properly explaining ...

The University of California will no longer allow diversity statements to be used for faculty hiring, the system announced this week – abandoning a controversial practice that UC spearheaded for ...

The University of California (UC) has become the latest high-profile school to drop diversity statements from its hiring practices. On Wednesday, the university’s provost Katherine S.