Princeton University has used racial quotas and engaged in “outright discrimination” in academic hiring, a recent City Journal investigation revealed.
Over a dozen internal documents and interviews with six employees confirmed Princeton University’s flagrant violation of Civil Rights Act principles in the name of “social justice,” the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe reported in a City Journal article.
For example, a 2021 internal report on faculty recruitment best practices explained how staff were required to increase applicant diversity at each stage of the hiring process.
“The report advised search committees to discount negative references for minority candidates and to ensure that every shortlist included at least ‘two women and/or two underrepresented minority candidates,’” the investigators wrote.