"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. "This was a directive that came down and surprised everyone," Krall said. The system implemented a policy saying it and its universities don't consider race or the other factors in determining eligibility for need- or merit-based financial aid."
"In another message Krall provided, a UIC official wrote that "faculty 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" DEI. The official wrote that the system "made this decision after carefully considering the increased risk to our faculty and to the University that these criteria present in t"
The University of Illinois system directed its campuses not to consider race, color, national origin, or sex in hiring, tenure, promotion, and student financial aid decisions. A faculty union at the University of Illinois at Chicago objected and characterized the directive as circumventing shared governance. The system issued guidance that financial-aid eligibility would exclude those factors and advised universities to align hiring, promotion, and tenure processes with the same standards, while noting variation in implementation across Urbana-Champaign, Springfield, and Chicago. UIC communications indicated replacement of an Affirmative Action Plan with a Nondiscrimination and Merit-Based Hiring Plan and restricted DEI statements and evaluations.
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