The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under the direction of President Kornbluth, has made a significant policy change by banning the use of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statements in faculty hiring and promotions. This decision marks a notable shift in academic policy, positioning MIT as the first elite private institution to eliminate what has been described as an ideological tool in academia. The move has been met with various reactions, highlighting its controversial nature within the academic community.
MIT continues to be the most serious elite college, bans DEI statements in hiring and promotions across all departments. Kudos to President Kornbluth, this is not a decision you can leave to the departments. I expect its reputation to rise as the those of other schools fall.
MIT is taking the first steps to ban DEI. In before soft conservatives, liberals and libertarians decry this move as anti-freedom. https://t.co/3KLeBUlXn4
Good for them to excise the DEI cancer. Let’s hope others follow suit. DEI is devastating for organizations and has no place in science, math, medicine, etc. https://t.co/2S4iNrsLGm
NEW: MIT has banned the use of DEI statements for faculty hiring and promotions. This is huge, a turning point — the policy, functionally an ideological weed-out tool, is widely unpopular in academia, but MIT is the first elite private institution to pull the plug. https://t.co/Ix3haXP4j9
MIT abandons DEI statements! "[This] needs to be promulgated widely, as MIT is doing all it can to keep it quiet. So pass it on, repost it, or whatever." Mathematician Abigail Thompson wrote a great oped against such statements a few years ago. Good to see change happening. https://t.co/W1aAQi5bic https://t.co/ePlZ6K0Jh1