A new study in the Southern Economic Journal suggests that university efforts to enhance diversity by hiring DEI executives to oversee diversification efforts were largely ineffective. Specifically ...

Recruiters are quietly steering more offers back toward graduates of a narrow band of elite universities, reversing some of the pandemic-era enthusiasm for broader, skills-first hiring. The shift is ...

In early 2021, Carma Gorman, an art history professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the designated “diversity advocate” for a faculty search committee, emailed John Yancey, the College of ...

At George Mason University, one faculty search committee assessed each job candidate’s contribution to “diversity”—including, according to an official memo, “demographic diversity.” Another committee ...