From Inside Higher Ed: Faculty at Williams College approved four motions at a faculty meeting... to remove language about using race in college admissions and hiring decisions from the faculty handbook, the Williams Record reported. The changes are part of a collegewide effort to comply with new federal laws and regulations, a college spokesperson said. In May, Williams officials stopped accepting grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, saying they would not accept new funding until the agencies clarified their ban on college grant recipients promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
Two of the approved motions removed references to affirmative action and replaced them with language about “non-discrimination.” Another motion revised the description of the Bolin Fellowship—named for Williams’s first Black graduate, Gaius Charles Bolin—to remove language that restricted the scholarship to underrepresented groups. The fourth motion removed racial provisions from the handbook description of faculty hiring processes. All motions were “widely approved,” the Record reported. Faculty were originally supposed to vote on the motions last month, but the vote was deferred to allow for further discussion...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/11/03/williams-removes-race-language-handbook-get-grants-back.
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See also https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/07/straws-in-wind-part-41.html; https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/06/straws-in-wind-part-12.html.
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