Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences said on Monday that it would no longer require job applicants to submit “diversity, inclusion and belonging” statements to be hired at the university’s largest faculty division. Instead, the division will require applicants to describe their “efforts to strengthen academic communities” and discuss how they would promote a “learning environment in which students are encouraged to ask questions and share their ideas,” Nina Zipser, the dean for faculty affairs and planning, said in an email to faculty members. The decision is a sharp break from the university’s recent practices and comes less than six...