FIRE claims victory in anti-DEI effort at UMass-Boston

Past postings on this blog have noted litigation in California - specifically a case in the community college system - over required DEI statements for hiring and promotion, particularly involving FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. In the California case, the requirement is currently temporarily blocked by a court.*

According to FIRE, UMass-Boston, after threats of legal action by FIRE over similar DEI statement requirements, has quietly withdrawn those requirements from job announcements.

...Late last month, FIRE wrote UMass Boston one last time, reiterating our demand. While the university’s final response simply referred us to its prior correspondence, we subsequently noticed the DEI requirements were indeed gone. They also do not appear in newer job listings. While UMass Boston took nearly five months to remove these DEI requirements from its faculty applications, we’re happy it eventually got there...

Full announcement at https://www.thefire.org/news/victory-umass-boston-quietly-removes-dei-requirements-faculty-applications.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/11/community-college-dei-requirements.html.