(Note: I wrote the original post about 10 months ago, but am only publishing it now. I have edited it since then, both for content, clarify, and style. But it's essentially the same post.)
I won't disclose what I do for a living or where exactly I work, but I can say that I work in an academic adjacent job at a very big public institution with locations in five cities and possibly more than 20,000 employees.
My employer has apparently commanded all its units to eliminate DEI requirements for hiring and for assessing job performance.
The details are frustratingly vague, and the process by which my employer arrived at this decision is even vaguer. It's not clear who in the institution's top management are responsible for the order. It's not clear why they are making the order. Have they been threatened directly by the present administration? Are they acting in compliance with a recent (last summer) memo from the Department of Justice? Are they doing anticipatory compliance in the hopes that the institution will not be a target for more drastic changes?
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