George Mason University considers cuts to diversity programs under pressure from Trump administration

George Mason University considers cuts to diversity programs under pressure from Trump administration

Can Universities Still Diversify Faculty Hiring Under Trump?

The professoriate doesn’t demographically represent the U.S.—or the college student—population. The government’s anti-DEI crusade threatens efforts to address that. Before Donald Trump retook office, advocates of a more demographically diverse U.S. professoriate were already criticizing existing hiring efforts as inadequate. One late-2022 paper in Nature Human Behaviour noted that, at recent rates, “higher education will never achieve demographi…

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), recognized worldwide for its academic rigor and focus on meritocracy, has taken a step that has raised suspicions about its intentions: it changed the title of its head of diversity, but kept intact the structure of the office it heads. Read more]]>