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Does Hiring Diversity Officers Increase University Diversity?

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Jonathan H. Adler | 7.12.2025 6:59 PM

A new study in the Southern Economic Journal suggests that university efforts to enhance diversity by hiring DEI executives to oversee diversification efforts were largely ineffective. Specifically the study, "The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring," finds that hiring CDOs had no effect on faculty diversity.

The abstract reads:

Racial diversity........

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