- The university's litmus test is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
"The University of California has been requiring prospective faculty members to affirm that they support diversity.
This was Orwellian in its own right—reminiscent of the university system's 1950s loyalty oaths, which required faculty to attest that they were not members of the Communist Party.
It now appears that at one campus, UC-Berkeley, the diversity initiative goes much further than previously understood.
Whether a candidate has proposed a specific, concrete plan to advance diversity is now being used as a litmus test for some positions.
No candidate who fails the test can even be considered for employment..."
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