Ohio State University’s (OSU) plans to employ 100 people from “underrepresented” groups as part of a social and racial justice initiative violates both its own policy of non-discrimination and federal civil rights laws, an economics professor says.
The RAISE initiative, which stands for race, inclusion, and social equity, was announced by OSU President Kristina Johnson in her first State of the University address in February. In the speech, Johnson said the public university’s current mission is to hire a minimum of 350 new tenure-track faculty—150 of whom will come from the new social justice-focused initiative.
