Arizona’s public universities have taken a stand against DEI-fueled discrimination. This is a huge win for free speech!

From The Daily Wire. Arizona’s public universities will no longer request “diversity statements” on their job applications in what free speech advocates called a “huge” win.

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A large portion of faculty job postings at Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University required applicants to provide diversity statements as a condition of hiring, the conservative Goldwater Institute found earlier this year.

At the University of Arizona, 28% of job postings had a mandatory diversity statement as of fall 2022. At Northern Arizona University, 73% of job postings required one, and Arizona State University had the highest portion with 81% of job postings requiring a diversity statement, according to the Institute’s report. …

Now, however, the public universities have scrapped their DEI statement requirements on those job postings. …

The Goldwater Institute argued that requiring diversity statements was unconstitutional under both the First Amendment and Arizona’s state Constitution.

Arizona’s Constitution states that “no religious or political test or qualification shall ever be required as a condition of admission into any public educational institution of the state, as teacher, student, or pupil.”

The elimination of diversity statements is a “huge victory for academic freedom and the First Amendment,” said Goldwater Institute president and CEO Victor Riches. …

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(Excerpt from The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Canva)