State Department partnership with Northeastern marked for funding suspension due to ‘DEI hiring practices’

State Department partnership with Northeastern marked for funding suspension due to ‘DEI hiring practices’

Northeastern is among 38 universities the State Department has recommended suspending from a federal research partnership on the basis of their diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring practices, according to a Nov. 17 internal memo reviewed by The Guardian. The memo recommends excluding universities that “openly engage in DEI hiring practices” or set DEI objectives for candidate pools from the Diplomacy Lab, through which the State Depar…