Texas Tech University is reviewing its hiring practices after a conservative advocacy group critiqued the university’s biology department for considering job candidates’ commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion.
instructing them that it is illegal to consider diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring.
Meanwhile, University of Houston System Chancellor Renu Khator told the committee that she viewed the letter from the governor’s office as a “reminder” about how her university system should conduct hiring practices. Efforts to gauge job candidates’ commitments to DEI can include diversity statements — in which candidates are asked to write about their experiences working with diverse student populations and the ways they plan to help students from all backgrounds be successful — and have become increasingly popular among universities across the country over the past decade.
However, Republican leaders over the past few years have pushed back against some policies to promote diversity and academic disciplines focused on race and ethnicity. DEI and critical race theory — an academic framework that looks at how racism manifests in the country’s laws and institutions — have become a target of conservatives who argue that white people are being unfairly treated or characterized in schools and workplaces.
The hiring process that is under scrutiny at Tech started in the fall of 2021 when the biology department at Tech posted four assistant professor job openings.
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