Run away!

SCOOP: Brown University Medical School now gives "diversity, equity, and inclusion" more weight than "excellent clinical skills" in its promotion criteria for faculty."

The criteria say DEI is a "major criterion." Clinical skills, by contrast, are only a "minor criterion."🧵 pic.twitter.com/5vOYSZZ3H0

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) February 4, 2025

Not to worry, though, those restrictions only apply to a tiny, unimportant part of the institution: the Department of Medicine. Phew!

A university spokesman, Brian Clark, declined to comment on the criteria but noted that they apply only to the Department of Medicine—whose 11 divisions include cardiology, oncology, and primary care—not to the medical school as a whole.