California Professor Denounces Pernicious ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Bureaucracies in Academia as He Announces Run for Congress
Pan says the hiring process he witnessed was ‘clearly discriminatory and undermines the principle of academic excellence and merit.’

A University of California professor running for Congress is focusing his campaign on “discriminatory” diversity, equity, and inclusion policies at California’s colleges and universities, which he says have “exacerbated racial discrimination and undermined the values of merit and freedom of speech.”
David Pan, a professor of German studies at the University of California, Irvine, has announced his bid for California’s 46th congressional district. Spurring his campaign as a Republican is a recent public comment he made to the Regents of the University of California detailing his experience with his university’s DEI bureaucracy.
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