{"id":5734,"date":"2009-03-26T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2009-03-26T07:34:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:34:18","slug":"critics-challenge-diversity-language-in-virginia-techs-tenure-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/critics-challenge-diversity-language-in-virginia-techs-tenure-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics Challenge Diversity Language in Virginia Tech&#8217;s Tenure Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/daily\/2009\/03\/14550n.htm?utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">Critics Challenge Diversity Language in Virginia Tech&#8217;s Tenure Policy<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nVirginia Tech has come under criticism from some outside groups for a set of new guidelines that, the critics say, appear to require faculty members to show a commitment to diversity as part of their bids for tenure and promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The critics, including the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, say the guidelines establish a \u201cloyalty oath\u201d that violates professors\u2019 academic freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Critics Challenge Diversity Language in Virginia Tech&#8217;s Tenure Policy Virginia Tech has come under criticism from some outside groups for a set of new guidelines that, the critics say, appear to require faculty members to show a commitment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/critics-challenge-diversity-language-in-virginia-techs-tenure-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2274],"tags":[1288921,1288962],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure-promotion","tag-diversity","tag-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}