Want to Get Hired by Columbia? Put DEI Before Teaching.

A student protest at Columbia University, where academic standards appear to be sliding further and further. (Steve Rosenbach/Getty Images)
The university uses an “evaluation tool” that assigns as much weight to a candidate’s DEI credentials as to their research.
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Last week I revealed how Yale’s department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry tells hiring faculty to put “DEI at the center of every decision,” and how every job advertised by the department links to a DEI “rubric” that tests candidates’ “commitment to promoting DEI.”
Now I’ve discovered that Columbia is using an “evaluation tool”—strikingly simi…
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