On Noisy Pendulums: July-August updates
On Noisy Pendulums: July-August updates
New good news on the DEI abolition front.
This newsletter is a continuation of a series:
Each post lists the institutions of high learning that happen to regain a bit of common sense and enact anti-DEI measures during the relevant time period.
FIRE keeps a list of institutions who declared institutional neutrality here. Read the Heterodox Academy declaration on institutional neutrality here.
New institutions that no longer require a DEI loyalty oath in faculty hiring:
Blue and Purple states:
Bates College in Maine (Aug 2024)
Red states:
More and more new states join the list of states that feature a comprehensive anti-DEI legislation.
A declaration on DEI statements by the president of Heterodox Academy, John Tomasi can be found here.
In July-August, SATs/ACTs returned to:
Georgetown (c. Jul-Aug 2025)
In October, eighth grade algebra was decriminalized in California, in a blow to the infamous California Mathematics Framework - the bastard child of math education “equity over merit” professor Jo Boaler who, unsurprisingly, was accused of “reckless disregard for accuracy” in both her individual work and her work on the California Math Framework. Let us mention that Boaler, the queen of equity, engaged in an intimidation campaign against a black professor who exposed her shenanigans.
More to come.