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By 2021, Bell was bragging publicly on a university DEI promotional video that over a third of the Alabama’s courses and 70 student organizations were DEI-focused.

By 2021, Bell was bragging publicly on a university DEI promotional video that over a third of the Alabama’s courses and 70 student organizations were DEI-focused.

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BREAKING: Stuart Bell told the University of Florida trustees he didn't merely rename and continue Alabama's DEI offices. But unearthed faculty senate meeting minutes reveal that Bell assured faculty the exact opposite was true: "The DEI renaming is a name change only."

BREAKING: Stuart Bell told the University of Florida trustees he didn't merely rename and continue Alabama's DEI offices. But unearthed faculty senate meeting minutes reveal that Bell assured faculty the exact opposite was true: "The DEI renaming is a name change only."

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NEW: The Mellon Foundation gave $1.5 million to establish a "center for the defense of academic freedom." In audio I've obtained, the group's leader says his goal is to undermine the newly launched classical civics centers: "map who these f---ers are... and knock them out." 🧵

NEW: The Mellon Foundation gave $1.5 million to establish a "center for the defense of academic freedom." In audio I've obtained, the group's leader says his goal is to undermine the newly launched classical civics centers: "map who these f---ers are... and knock them out." 🧵

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Housed within the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the group's conception of academic freedom seems to have little to do with free speech. Here's a meeting where one fellow says that UPenn punishing Amy Wax for her speech was academic freedom in practice.

Housed within the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the group's conception of academic freedom seems to have little to do with free speech. Here's a meeting where one fellow says that UPenn punishing Amy Wax for her speech was academic freedom in practice.

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Earlier this year, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, a former University of Michigan dean, described how administrators can and should be "more forceful" in executing on diversity hiring goals. What she describes is basically a clever and very effective assertion of power: —Most importantly, she says, search committees just won't move forward until they "bring back a pool that looks decent." —"You had to be very strictly rule-bound and create a bunch of very strict rules about what it would take to carry out a search. Who can be on the committee, what the charge looks like, what the description looks like, how you search." —This, she acknowledges, means creating "a lot of rules in an environment where we’re all used to lots of freedom." —"I think that becomes a question for us, it’s like, what is freedom actually in a racist society? And whether that’s actually what we mean by freedom, to allow people to do whatever they want."

Earlier this year, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, a former University of Michigan dean, described how administrators can and should be "more forceful" in executing on diversity hiring goals. What she describes is basically a clever and very effective assertion of power: —Most importantly, she says, search committees just won't move forward until they "bring back a pool that looks decent." —"You had to be very strictly rule-bound and create a bunch of very strict rules about what it would take to carry out a search. Who can be on the committee, what the charge looks like, what the description looks like, how you search." —This, she acknowledges, means creating "a lot of rules in an environment where we’re all used to lots of freedom." —"I think that becomes a question for us, it’s like, what is freedom actually in a racist society? And whether that’s actually what we mean by freedom, to allow people to do whatever they want."

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The group reserves special ire for the new civics centers, like the UF's Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. Here's its president, Isaac Kamola, again saying he wants to run projects that will boost their "political cost" and decrease their "legitimacy."

The group reserves special ire for the new civics centers, like the UF's Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. Here's its president, Isaac Kamola, again saying he wants to run projects that will boost their "political cost" and decrease their "legitimacy."

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Kamola specifically argues that, through "right-wing" centers, donors pull a sneaky trick, funding new faculty for a limited time, only to later leave universities to foot the bill. This is an especially ironic complaint, given the practices of Kamola's own funder...

Kamola specifically argues that, through "right-wing" centers, donors pull a sneaky trick, funding new faculty for a limited time, only to later leave universities to foot the bill. This is an especially ironic complaint, given the practices of Kamola's own funder...

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You might remember this interview. What’s crazy is that the professor in it, Patrick Grzanka, was promoted to an admin role by the University of Tennessee after it came out.

You might remember this interview. What’s crazy is that the professor in it, Patrick Grzanka, was promoted to an admin role by the University of Tennessee after it came out.

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At Ohio State, dean Susan Olesik told a committee that “diversity of the candidates" has to be as high a priority as scholarship. “If the slate of candidates that you bring forward are not diverse, I will ask you to simply keep searching,” she said.

At Ohio State, dean Susan Olesik told a committee that “diversity of the candidates" has to be as high a priority as scholarship. “If the slate of candidates that you bring forward are not diverse, I will ask you to simply keep searching,” she said.

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