Requests for diversity statements in faculty applications at MIT have been eliminated, following President Kornbluth's directive and support from key officials.

MIT becomes first elite university to ban diversity statements

In what’s likely to be a watershed moment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ended the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring, making it the first elite private university to backtrack on the practice that has been roundly criticised as a political litmus test.

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