A top academic officer at Notre Dame told faculty members that hiring women and minorities was “equally important” to the school's mission as Catholic employment.
University Provost John McGreevey outlined employment priorities for the entire faculty on January 17th. Get According to the National Catholic Registry. Provost claims that “the complexity of our mission” has called for Notre Dame to implement a new employment guide scheduled to take effect on July 1, and to “evaluate candidates fairly.” did. (Related: Department of Education must remove school policies nationwide or lose federal funds) warning)
“One of the key goals is to hire Catholic faculty and other faculty members who are deeply committed to our mission to ensure continuity with the past and future as a world-leading global Catholic research university. ” writes McGreevy. “As equally important as the second overlap, our mission is to ensure that women and underrepresented minorities are the women of our faculty and the underrepresented minority, so that our mission is a diverse and inclusive intellectual community that encourages us. It's about increasing the number.”
@ndlaw The school aims to “educate another type of lawyer.” Part of that process is training in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion.@ndstories We talk to DEI director Max Gaston about how his new podcast will give a window into his work. listen: https://t.co/zanjw9ya9b pic.twitter.com/qi7uazyzmt
– University of Notre Dame (@notredame) January 27, 2023
The email urged Boise State University political scientist Scott Einer to write an extensive book. analysis Claremont Institute's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Policy at Notre Dame. His report estimated that the university held 167 DEI-related events and spent about $6 million on diversity human resources salaries in 2024.
When the university announced the DEI Task Force in 2021, Father John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame until 2024, was announced. I said “Only this way we can respond to our Catholic mission.”
McGreevey reportedly sent an email a few days before President Donald Trump signed the matter Presidential Order It threatens to cut federal funding to universities that promote DEI policies. Craig's trainer, the director of the Department of Education's Civil Rights, warned the university to eliminate DEI practices or risk losing federal funds. It remains unclear whether these directives will affect Notre Dame, which receives millions Federal Research Grants Every year.
The President said that such policies were “traditional American values of diligence, excellence and individual achievements based on illegal, corrosive, harmful, and harmful identity-based identity-based diligence, excellence, and individual achievements.” He said it would undermine the unity of our people because it would deny, trust, deny and undermine. It would ruin the system.”
Trump has also committed to “building a merit-based society with colour brands,” and ending government programs “socially designing and gender in every aspect of public and private life.” . First address.
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