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conducted its hiring practices. One job candidate reportedly earned bad marks for not understanding the difference between “equity” and “equality,” and another applicant received a demerit for repeatedly referring to professors using the “he” pronoun.Foundation for Individual Rights and ExpressionAaron Terr, FIRE's director of public advocacy, noted that tension over DEI initiatives has steadily ramped up in recent years.
Many higher-ed institutions have started to require job candidates and faculty who are up for a promotion or tenure to demonstrate via written statement their dedication to accepted DEI views, Terr said. Such statements then may work against applicants who don't agree with prevailing DEI opinions. “The problem is that the way that these statements are evaluated is often viewpoint discriminatory,” he said. “So if you express, or fail to express, certain views about contested social and political issues related to race or gender, then you may be disadvantaged in the hiring process or when you're being evaluated.”
The way Terr sees it, DEI initiatives don’t have to be at odds with academic freedom and free speech. Still, universities have been known to pit them against such First Amendment values. Colleges have every right to try to increase diversity on campus, Terr said, but the process can’t interfere with someone’s expressive rights. “If you're not familiar with how [DEI] sort of gets operationalized, it might sound perfectly innocuous or uncontroversial, or values that everyone can agree on,” he said.
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