The outrageous proposal for a diversity-commitment litmus test for faculty members at Virginia Tech won’t go away. As Peter Wood writes here, the dean of the college of arts and sciences is evidently determined to have her way on this and will resort to all sorts of evasions and obfuscations. No matter how they craft the language, it’s obvious that any candidate for promotion who has ever spoken or written in opposition to the diversity mania is likely to get voted off the island.

Peter also goes into her remarkably thin academic credentials. Now, I’m not a big fan of credentialism, but for Virginia Tech to hire her as dean is rather like a law firm deciding to make a paralegal the head of the litigation team. And we learn that she is working on a Ph.D. in higher education. I’d like to know just what body of knowledge “higher education” covers.