Thread by @JohnDSailer

The remarkable thing about discrimination in higher ed: so much of it was documented. Approved in official records. Talked about in emails. All subject to FOIA.

Like this email, where a University of New Mexico professor just says: "I don't want to hire white men for sure."

Here's a search committee report from Ohio State saying: "We decided as a committee that diversity was just as important as perceived merit as we made our selection."

Here's an report from the University of Washington which concluded that its psychology department just blatantly discriminated by re-ranking finalists so the first choice wouldn't be a white woman.

Here's one of many hiring proposals from the University of Colorado making explicit race-based hiring goal: "to hire a Black, Indigenous, or Latinx faculty member."

Here's the University of Michigan noting that a key diversity hiring program was successful because, despite using ostensibly race-neutral criteria, 93% of its hires were "from traditionally minoritized groups."

Here's a dean at OSU telling a search committee: “Diversity of the candidates has to be as high of a priority as the scholarship.”

Here's another hiring proposal from University of Colorado. "Our commitment... is to hire someone from the BIPOC community."

Here's a former dean at the University of Michigan describing how she would reject finalist slates if they didn't have the proper racial makeup.

Here's a UNM hiring team rejecting a job candidate because he wasn't an underrepresented minority and the math department is "really short on women."

Here's Vanderbilt describing a 18-20 person hiring program reserved exclusively for "Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Pacific Islander" faculty.