Mark Meckler
This is something you probably already knew, but the problem is getting worse and worse. More colleges and universities are forcing their new hires to sign what is essentially a loyalty oath to the Democratic Party (or at least to liberal principals) before they’re considered for hiring.
In fact, it’s a statement of faith. Their faith is dialectical materialism, and one of their primary goals is to have a state religion.
Truth Revolt has the following examples of some university requirements:
The University of Oregon: teaching must “reflect the diversity of the field, including the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of its scholars and practitioners.” Plus, they must incorporate “issues of equity, implicit bias, and cultural understanding in new faculty searches.”
University of California system: “mandatory diversity statement for all new hires, and the specific criteria used to evaluate a candidate’s commitment to diversity includes whether a scholar’s research addresses ‘race, gender, economic justice or inequality’
Portland State University: hands out a “list of 44 questions for measuring ‘cultural competencies’ during the interview process.
Carnegie Mellon University: candidates “can pass litmus tests like these if they are ‘a member of a historically underrepresented group in their field.'”
Oregon Health & Science University actually tracks how frequently faculty go to diversity events.
A new study by the Oregon Association of Scholars says that over twenty colleges currently require these types of documents, but the number is far higher if you include requirements for PhD programs and other professional studies. The College Fix describes the problem:
These statements have strong ties to liberal ideology, such as the assumption of group victimization and claims for group-based entitlements, effectively making them “partisan litmus tests” to “weed out non-left wing scholars,” the association states in its report.
The association notes that many schools now link to articles explaining how to craft a diversity statement, which include affirmations that a professor will “keep the white students from dominating all classroom discussions,” or “reflect a commitment to queer visibility,” or teach students “not to thoughtlessly reproduce the standard white and Western model of legitimate knowledge.”
The Oregon Association of Scholars states, “Today the mandatory ‘diversity statement’ threatens to become a ‘fifth document’ in faculty hiring and promotion at many universities (in addition to cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, and teaching statement).” A writer at Truth Revolt agrees:
This will obviously have a chilling effect on academic freedom and free speech, if faculty members are actually being evaluated and judged on their commitment to left wing causes. The Oregon Association of Scholars says that teachers will invariably, “spend more time signaling their zealous support and making sure not to challenge students in ways that might be construed as a threat to this ideology.”
h/t Instapundit
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