Indeed, joining a herd of colleges across the nation, Arizona’s three public universities have all begun forcing faculty job applicants to provide mandatory “diversity statements” as a condition of hiring. The statements—which ostensibly function to promote innocuous-sounding concepts such as “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI)—are increasingly used across academia as a political screening test to enforce intellectual and political conformity in support of leftwing concepts aligned with Critical Race Theory (CRT).

Key findings include:

* Up to 80% of faculty job openings at Arizona’s public universities now similarly push applicants to pledge support for DEI.
* As of fall 2022, diversity statements are mandated in over a quarter (28%) of job postings at the University of Arizona, nearly three-quarters (73%) of job postings at Northern Arizona University, and in more than four of five (81%) job postings at Arizona State University.
* Diversity statement practices in Arizona’s public universities include replacing the traditional cover letter with a DEI statement, forcing candidates to provide up to two full pages detailing their activism or commitment to the DEI regime, and calling on applicants to endorse CRT-based concepts such as “intersectional personal identities.”

[Glenn Reynolds wrote yesterday how college wokery would kill its own institutions. This is yet another example for his premise. — Ed]