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A UIC official said the system made the decision after \u201cconsidering the increased risk to our faculty and to the University that these criteria present in the current climate.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The University of Illinois system is telling its institutions they can\u2019t consider race, color, national origin or sex in hiring, tenure, promotion and student financial aid decisions\u2014a move that\u2019s drawn opposition from a faculty union at the University of Illinois at Chicago. <\/p>\n
Aaron Krall, president of UIC United Faculty, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors, said the UI system circumvented shared governance. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a directive that came down and surprised everyone,\u201d Krall said. <\/p>\n
The system implemented a policy saying it and its universities don\u2019t consider race or the other factors in determining eligibility for need- or merit-based financial aid. In a statement, the system further said it \u201cissued guidance to its universities to ensure that hiring, promotion, and tenure processes follow the same standards.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement said, \u201cThere may be some variation in how and when changes are fully operationalized\u201d across its three universities: UIC, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign. The system didn\u2019t provide Inside Higher Ed <\/em>an interview Tuesday about why it\u2019s making this change now. <\/p>\n Krall shared communications that he said UIC officials sent out last week. One, from Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda and others, suggested the student aid change would apply to \u201cdonor-funded, college-determined and institutionally funded scholarships\u201d and said \u201cUIC will replace its Affirmative Action Plan with a Nondiscrimination and Merit-Based Hiring Plan.\u201d <\/p>\n In another message Krall provided, a UIC official wrote that \u201cfaculty may no longer submit a Statement on Efforts to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the dossier, nor may faculty members be evaluated on norms related to\u201d DEI. The official wrote that the system \u201cmade this decision after carefully considering the increased risk to our faculty and to the University that these criteria present in the current climate.\u201d <\/p>\n Krall said. \u201cThe most shocking thing to me, really, is they want to change the policy and make it retroactive\u2014so we have [affected] faculty members going up for promotion right now who have already submitted their promotion materials.\u201d He said the union has demanded the right to bargain over these changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A UIC official said the system made the decision after \u201cconsidering the increased risk to our faculty and to the University that these criteria present in the current climate.\u201d Just_Super\/iStock\/Getty Images Plus The University of Illinois system is telling its institutions they can\u2019t consider race, color, national origin or sex in hiring, tenure, promotion and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1122,493,3509,2475,4113,393,10914],"class_list":{"0":"post-30004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-aid","9":"tag-bans","10":"tag-hiring","11":"tag-race","12":"tag-sex","13":"tag-student","14":"tag-tenure"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}