Harvard Professor Calls for the End of Mandatory DEI Statements for Faculty, Students

Rick Moran : Apr 3, 2024
PJ Media

"By requiring academics to profess—and flaunt—faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom..." -Harvard law professor Randall L. Kennedy

[PJMedia.com] Harvard law professor Randall L. Kennedy, who describes himself as "a scholar on the left committed to struggles for social justice," penned an op-ed as part of a Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard "calling out DEI ideology and the practice of forcing prospective professors to submit a statement describing their "orientation toward diversity, equity, and inclusion practices," reports the Washington Examiner. (Screengrab image: via YouTube)

"By requiring academics to profess—and flaunt—faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom," Kennedy wrote Tuesday.

"By overreaching, by resorting to compulsion, by forcing people to toe a political line, by imposing ideological litmus tests, by incentivizing insincerity, and by creating a circular mode of discourse that is seemingly impervious to self-questioning, the current DEI regime is discrediting itself," he continued.

Conservative professors across America have been questioning DEI statements from the beginning. Campuses are split almost evenly on the necessity and utility of DEI statements, but Professor Kennedy has nailed the primary objection to DEI statements... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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