UNC Institutions Should End Discriminatory Faculty Hiring

Recent investigative reporting revealed that five UNC schools participated in a federal program explicitly created to hire faculty based on race. UNC should take steps to end these partnerships as soon as possible.

Last week in City Journal, Manhattan Institute senior fellow John Sailer published an investigative report on a DEI hiring program run out of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) with three partner institutions. The $10-million “Re-Imagining STEM Equity Utilizing Postdoctoral Pathways” (RISE UPP) program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its purpose, Sailer reports, is to hire postdoctoral fellows, with special attention to diversity, and “fast-track them to tenure-track positions, sidestepping normal hiring procedures.”