If you’d like tenure at Virginia Tech, you must pay attention to the new litmus test, which boils down to always doing the utmost to prove your absolute devotion to inclusion and diversity. Ashley Thorne writes about the new standards in this NAS piece. What used to be a thumb on the scales has become a lead ingot.

As the ranks of tenured faculty shrink, they’re probably at the same time becoming more philosophically homogeneous, as those who aren’t true believers (or good at faking it at least) are weeded out.