<p>Arizona’s public universities will no longer request “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diversity statements</a>” on their job applications in what free speech advocates called a &#8220;huge&#8221; win.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/arizona-universities-demand-applicants-allegiance-to-progressive-politics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> earlier this year.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-report/the-new-loyalty-oaths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.</p>
<p>The Arizona university system at times required job applicants to replace their traditional cover letter with a diversity statement, submit two full pages on the candidate&#8217;s activism or commitment to diversity, and sometimes even called on applicants to endorse progressive concepts like “intersectional personal identities,” the report found.</p>
<p>Now, however, the public universities have scrapped their DEI statement requirements on those job postings.</p>
<p>The Arizona Board of Regents, which governs the public university system, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ditching-dei-statements-three-big-arizona-universities-called-huge-victory-academic-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the board and state schools have never required DEI statements, but &#8220;some departments at the universities may have included a request for a DEI statement in a job application.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, &#8220;the universities have discontinued any requests for such statements in job applications,&#8221; the Board of Regents said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some posted job applications that include a request for a DEI statement may still be found online and the universities are updating those job postings to remove the request for DEI statements,&#8221; the board added.</p>
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<p>The Goldwater Institute <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/goldwater-defeats-diversity-statements-at-arizona-universities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that requiring diversity statements was unconstitutional under both the First Amendment and Arizona&#8217;s state Constitution.</p>
<p>Arizona&#8217;s Constitution <a href="https://law.justia.com/constitution/arizona/11/7.htm#:~:text=No%20sectarian%20instruction%20shall%20be,%2C%20as%20teacher%2C%20student%2C%20or" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>The elimination of diversity statements is a &#8220;huge victory for academic freedom and the First Amendment,” <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/goldwater-defeats-diversity-statements-at-arizona-universities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Goldwater Institute president and CEO Victor Riches.</p>
<p>“DEI programs and ‘statements’ do not produce free expression nor more diversity of thought, equal opportunities, and a culture that includes everyone in school activities because DEI’s guiding principles are rooted in the racially discriminatory worldview known as critical race theory,” Goldwater Institute senior fellow Jonathan Butcher added.</p>
<p>Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) content in university classes as well as K-12 public schools has become a hot-button issue in recent years.</p>
<p>Several other states have also scrapped DEI statements for public university jobs.</p>
<p>In April, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/14/new-texas-bans-law-diversity-offices-state-higher-education#:~:text=The%20bill%20also%20prohibits%20diversity,and%20innovative%20colleges%20and%20universities." target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a bill banning diversity statements as well as DEI offices across the state&#8217;s higher education institutions.</p>
<p>In May, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/desantis-defunds-diversity-and-inclusion-programs-in-florida-public-universities/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> legislation banning diversity statements as well as state and federal funding for DEI programs at state universities.</p>
<p>The University of Missouri system <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-03-27/the-university-of-missouri-system-cuts-diversity-statements-from-its-job-postings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eliminated</a> diversity statements in hiring practices back in March after North Carolina <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/university-of-north-carolina-cancels-woke-diversity-in-hiring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> the statements a month earlier.</p>

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