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John Sailer

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John Sailer

@JohnDSailer

Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst. Investigating higher ed. FOIA fan. Tall. Opinions mine.

Winston-Salem, NC

Joined May 2020

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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Jun 12
My (slightly) longer take on the Vanderbilt/WashU report. 1/ The report asserts that the "bald" critique of politicized research is wrong, but that the "sharpest version" zeros in on relativism. Thus, even though it identifies other sources, relativism is the real problem.
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Apr 25, 2025
This is fascinating. More than 100 Yale professors have called for an audit of the university's sprawling bureaucracy. The audit, they say, would "preempt potential federal intervention" and send the message: "Yale prioritizes intellectual vitality over bureaucratic inertia."
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Mar 3, 2023
NEW: The Texas A&M University System has ended the use of DEI statements in both admissions and faculty hiring. “No university or agency in the A&M System will admit any student, nor hire any employee based on any factor other than merit.”
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
May 4, 2024
NEW: MIT has banned the use of DEI statements for faculty hiring and promotions. This is huge, a turning point — the policy, functionally an ideological weed-out tool, is widely unpopular in academia, but MIT is the first elite private institution to pull the plug.
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Dec 1, 2024
At the NIH, the Distinguished Scholars Program hires scientists who show a “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Through a public records request, I’ve acquired redacted NIH hiring documents that show what this criterion looks like in practice. 🧵
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Jan 26, 2025
NEW: Louis Galarowicz (@NASorg) and I have acquired a trove of records from University of Colorado, Boulder, that show how the entire university coordinated to advance a system of brazen race-based hiring. The receipts are pretty astonishing... 🧵
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Jul 6, 2024
SCOOP: The NIH is giving $250m to universities to hire medical scientists who show “an interest in DEI.” The NIH says the program doesn't “discriminate against any group.” Public records tell a different story. As one email put it, “I don’t want to hire white men for sure."
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Sep 11, 2023
In the NYT, @powellAtlantic notes that UC Berkeley carried out a cluster hire—eliminating 75% of faculty job applicants based on DEI statement alone. The second photo is Berkeley's own description. Universities around the U.S. have embraced this model. A quick thread.
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Sep 9, 2023
The New York Times notes that many California universities publicly post their rubric for assessing DEI. Berkeley’s gives a low score if you say you prefer to “treat everyone the same.” Remarkably, this rubric is used across the country. Here are just three examples.
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Apr 17, 2023
Actual quiz question at UT Austin: Which group is most likely to violate others' rights with "violence, deceit, irresponsibility, and a lack of remorse?" Answer: "wealthy white men." freebeacon.com/campus/wealthy…
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Mar 31, 2025
Notable reporting from Emily Kopp. A study purported to show that mortality is higher for black infants seen by white doctors. By now, the issues with this study are widely known. FOIAed notes show how the authors in fact cut points that they said "undermined the narrative."
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Mar 20, 2025
HUGE NEWS: The University of California Board of Regents just ended the use diversity statements in faculty hiring throughout the system. “To be clear, stand-alone diversity statements will no longer be permitted in recruitments,” the system’s provost said in a letter today.
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Jan 9, 2023
The term “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) is meant to sound unambiguously beneficent. But many of the professors I spoke with understand that DEI instead implies a set of controversial political and social views. My latest in @TheFP. 🧵
How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities
From thefp.com
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John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Jan 23, 2025
I don't think many will admit this, but for a lot of those in academia, maybe even a majority, I suspect the reaction to Trump's order on DEI was a big a sigh of relief.
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