U of Iowa Law School flirting with a variation on the "diversity loyalty oaths": the "inclusion pledge"

F.I.R.E. comments here, and makes the right points:

[O]ne recommendation [of a law schoool committee] in particular poses significant challenges to academic freedom at Iowa Law: “Include a question on the annual faculty/staff evaluation form that asks what the employee has done to advance the university’s mission to create an inclusive community.”

In response, on Oct. 12, 2020, FIRE wrote privately to Iowa Law, calling on the law school not to ask faculty about how they have advanced diversity, equity, and inclusion. Incorporating such a question into faculty evaluations risks establishing an ideological litmus test for professors, which could impact promotion and tenure consideration and penalize faculty for holding a dissenting opinion on matters of public concern...