North Carolina State University has stopped its plan to use diversity statements when considering faculty promotions and tenure .
A project of the NC State Faculty Senate to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations was reportedly put on pause after a UNC Board of Governors decision earlier this year to ban compelled speech.
The UNC Board of Governors oversees 16 institutions under the UNC system, including NC State.
“It is lamentable that it has taken an express prohibition by the UNC system to end these problems, but it’s cause for optimism that it is possible to reestablish a culture of free inquiry,” Parents Defending Education President and founder Nicole Neily told the Washington Examiner.