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> Edit: And I wonder if and when these will start to appear in PhD applications, as PhD students are employees in a sense and often need to teach, too.

I applied for CS PhDs last year and Stanford did indeed require a diversity statement.

I don't remember any of the other universities I applied to asking for this. MIT certainly did not.

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> Stanford did indeed require a diversity statement.

If true (and similar to the “contributions to diversity” statements discussed here), that’s quite disappointing news about my alma mater. At least there was no such nonsense back when I applied to Stanford Physics, but that was ages ago.

What the hell happened to Die Luft der Freiheit weht?