Reason

Diversity Statements and the First Amendment

In 2024, I was honored to deliver the Roscoe Pound Lecture at the University of Nebraska College of Law. The article based on that lecture is now in print, and until the Nebraska Law Review updates ...
Yahoo

Contributor: Why liberals should celebrate the end of diversity statements at UC

Royce Hall at UCLA. Rubrics used by some UC campuses downgraded candidates applying for professorships whose beliefs included treating "everyone the same." (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Amid the Trump ...
Reason

Diversity Statements Coming to an End at the University of California

The University of California is the godfather of the use of so-called diversity statements in faculty hiring. I have a piece forthcoming at the Nebraska Law Review arguing that such diversity ...
Los Angeles Times

As Trump attacks DEI, UC bans ‘diversity statements’ in faculty hiring

UC will ban campuses from requiring faculty job applicants to submit “diversity statements,” as DEI programs are under fire by the Trump administration. The statements were short essays in which ...
Los Angeles Times

Why liberals should celebrate the end of diversity statements at UC

Amid the Trump administration’s assault on higher education and academic freedom — shaking down institutions like Columbia, targeting pro-Palestinian scholars and students for deportation and ...