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ERIC Number: EJ1410042
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0895-4852
EISSN: EISSN-1936-4709
A Strategy for Reforming American Universities
Warren Treadgold
Academic Questions, v36 n3 p11-18 2023
Although the new Supreme Court decision outlawing affirmative action in college admissions is constitutional, equitable, and approved by a large majority of Americans, by itself it will probably increase leftist dominance of American universities. After all, an increase in leftist dominance was the effect of the constitutional amendment outlawing racial preferences in college admissions and hiring that California voters easily passed in 1996 and heavily reaffirmed in 2020. That amendment eventually led to a requirement by California's state universities that applicants for academic jobs must submit statements explaining how they have contributed and will go on contributing to "diversity, equity, and inclusion"--DEI for short. About a fifth of American faculty jobs are now estimated to require DEI statements, and the number is growing steadily. DEI statements are also required of current faculty at California's state universities and many other universities for purposes of determining salary increases, tenure, and promotion. DEI requirements are not a "fad," but a blunt formulation of what universities have already been doing less openly, as part of a steady march to the left that has gone on for more than forty years. Something needs to be done to change universities now. The only solution, the author argues, is to hire administrators and professors who do not share the leftist and racialist DEI ideology.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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