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Math Professor Slams ‘Diversity Statements’ Used In Hiring. Hundreds Of Academics Condemn Her And Math Society For Publishing Her Essay.

Hank Berrien
Math Professor Slams ‘Diversity Statements’ Used In Hiring. Hundreds Of Academics Condemn Her And Math Society For Publishing Her Essay.
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A mathematics professor at the University of California, Davis, who published an essay slamming university-mandated “diversity statements” that are used to determine the advisability of hiring prospective applicants has been bitterly attacked in a letter signed by hundreds of academics around the country, who also attacked the American Mathematical Society for even publishing her essay.

As Addison Smith reports in The College Fix, Professor Abigail Thompson, a vice president of the American Mathematical Society, wrote in her essay:

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