Applicants need to demonstrate ‘specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion’
Applicants for teaching jobs at the University of California Berkeley lost points during interviews if they did not demonstrate sufficient awareness and commitment to “diversity, equity and inclusion,” according to recently released documents.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression obtained the documents after a two-year battle for information on the public university’s use of diversity statements in hiring. While the University of California system has not hidden that it wants applicants to support DEI as part of hiring, the new documents shed light on how it has been implemented.