University of Michigan’s ‘Watershed Moment’
The school, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop one of the most expensive DEI programs in the country, is hitting the brakes.

The decision by the University of Michigan to do away with soliciting diversity statements for faculty hiring, promotion, and tenure strikes us as a newsworthy development. The school, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on one of the most expansive, and expensive, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the country, has become one of the first selective, public universities to rein in a contested diversity policy on its own terms.
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