GU Prof: Universities only seek certain types of diversity

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Universities only seek certain types of diversity

Georgetown University professor John Hasnas writes in the Wall Street Journal of his experience with faculty candidate searches over the past twenty-plus years. Not only is there rarely any effort consider ideological or viewpoint diversity, but in some cases there have been efforts to squelch it.

I always held out hope that this wasn't the case at GU, but I knew that was folly to think otherwise.

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Apparently this is a problem at Jesuit universities across the country:

Marquette Demands Prof Apologize

Rather than discipline the instructor who silenced a conservative student, the university suspended the whistleblower. Now it’s reportedly extending the suspension through the fall 2016 semester and demanding that he apologize as a condition of returning to work.