Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has removed its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirement for prospective faculty members.

Tenure-track faculty were previously required to provide a statement on how they will encourage DEI initiatives.

Dean of Faculty Affairs and Planning Nina Zipser announced the development in an email.

Zipster and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra made the change in “response to feedback from numerous faculty members” who felt the requirements were “too narrow in the information they attempted to gather,” the email reads, according to the Harvard Crimson.

Instead of providing a statement on DEI, those who are finalists in the faculty application process will write about “efforts to strengthen academic communities” as well as how they can create a “learning environment in which students are encouraged to ask questions and share their ideas.”

The updated requirements will also apply to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ “internal promotion and review procedures as well as external hiring,” the Harvard Crimson noted.

Other universities have ended DEI initiatives, American Faith reported.

Last month, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill’s board of trustees voted to end the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department.

Marty Kotis, vice chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, said DEI is “discriminatory and divisive.”

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ended its requirement for DEI statements from faculty.

“My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to M.I.T. and to make sure they thrive once here,” MIT President Sally Kornbluth said in a statement. “We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.”