Of COURSE: Lisa Cook's Newly Released via FOIA 85-Page Tenure Packet Shows a WHOLE LOTTA DEI -Screenshots

It has gone from concerning to bad to worse for Lisa Cook. Sure, the mortgage fraud stuff is pretty damning, but when you look at other facets of her career, you see a pattern. And while we're certainly not DEI experts of any sort, her 85-page Tenure Packet released by Chris Brunet through an FOIA certainly gives us the impression that was the case.

See for yourselves:

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: I obtained Lisa Cook’s 85-page Tenure Packet via FOIA. Download link below.

It’s heavily redacted, but here are the big takeaways:

1) Michigan State’s econ dept likely voted against tenure — but were overruled by the Dean. This means she was not even good enough… pic.twitter.com/m9vlRSvLIY
— Chris Brunet (@chrisbrunet) September 1, 2025

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... for tenure at MSU based on merit, yet somehow Fed Board material?
2) She got tenure despite her research record, not because of it. The tenure packet emphasizes her teaching ability and downplays her research.
3) She would not have gotten tenure without her now-debunked paper.
4) Her tenure packet lists her AER P&P as an AER, with an asterisk indicating it is peer-reviewed. She is lying about this paper being peer reviewed.
5) Every letter writer recognized her as an econ historian, not a macroeconomist or an international economist, which she self-proclaimed to be in Senate testimony.

Woof. So. Much. Woof.

Yes, good eye — it appears her department checked the ‘Do not reappoint’ box, and the redaction didn’t fully obscure it.https://t.co/vCQcZh6uHt
— Chris Brunet (@chrisbrunet) September 1, 2025

Ruh-roh.

This is shockingly poor scholarship for someone granted tenure at a supposedly reputable university, with barely one article every two years, and even those padded with think tank pieces at Hoover. pic.twitter.com/99lxX5m1mm
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) September 1, 2025