A City University of New York panel that examined the diversity of the university’s faculty members has
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A City University of New York panel that examined the diversity of the university’s faculty members has come under fire for creating a separate focus group for Jewish professors to help prepare its report. The focus group is described in the report, which was issued last month on CUNY’s Diversity Action Plan and sought to increase the recruitment and retention of minority faculty. The focus group for Jewish professors was one of several created for the study, which included groups for African-American, Asian, Hispanic, and Italian-American faculty members. Critics of the religious category told the New York Post that the creation of a label for Jewish professors could be used to limit their job opportunities. A CUNY spokesman said in a statement that no new faculty designation was created, and that the focus group had been formed “explicitly at the request of Jewish faculty” who participated as volunteers. The spokesman added that the panel had never contemplated adding a religious faith to the data categories of the university’s faculty demographics.
