Harvard eliminates DEI requirement for some tenure-track professors

Published June 3, 2024 5:32pm ET



In a groundbreaking reversal, Harvard University’s largest faculty division announced on Monday that it would no longer require applicants for tenure-track positions to submit diversity, equity, and inclusion statements.

The Ivy League institution’s announcement about DEI statements, or “Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging,” as the university calls them, comes after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences implemented the policy change earlier this spring. 

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