It's not a secret - perhaps this source is more palatable to you, although it lacks exact figures: Mathematicians divided over faculty hiring practices that req

It's not a secret - perhaps this source is more palatable to you, although it lacks exact figures: Mathematicians divided over faculty hiring practices that require proof of efforts to promote diversity - https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-divided-over-faculty-hiring-practices-require-proof-efforts-promote https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-divid... Or this one: Required ‘diversity and inclusion’ statements amount to a political litmus test for hiring - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universitys-new-loyalty-oath-11576799749 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universitys-new-loyalty-oat... Or this one: Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diversity-initiative-berkeley/ https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver... Or this one: A recent report from the Goldwater Institute found that 80% of job postings for Arizona’s public universities required applicants to submit a statement detailing their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. - https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-report/the-new-loyalty-oaths/ https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-report/the-new-loy... Or how about directly from the horse's mouth: Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Will No Longer [i.e. they did until 2024] Require Diversity Statements - https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/6/4/dei-faculty-hiring-stopped/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/6/4/dei-faculty-hiri... And a few more admissions of past use of these statements: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/diversity-statements-university-of-california.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/diversity-statements-u... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/politics/dei-statements-harvard-massachusetts-institute-of-technology.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/politics/dei-statement... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/university-of-michigan-dei-diversity-statemements.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/university-of-michigan... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/ucla-dei-statement.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/ucla-dei-statement.htm... Oh, and just to show my statement on unofficial discrimination being higher wasn't uninformed speculation: With State Bans on D.E.I., Some Universities Find a Workaround: Rebranding - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/diversity-ban-dei-college.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/diversity-ban-dei-coll...