Ohio State University (OSU) says it intends to employ 50 additional professors to focus on social and racial justice as part of a wider initiative that is estimated to cost millions of dollars a year. University President Kristina Johnson announced the RAISE initiative, which stands for race, inclusion, and social equity, in her first State of the University address in February. In the speech, Johnson said the public university’s current mission is to hire a minimum of 350 net new tenure-track faculty–150 of whom will come from the new social justice-focused RAISE initiative. Of the 150, 50 of the RAISE faculty will be “scientists, artists, and scholars whose work addresses social equity and racial disparities in fields such as health care, education, justice and public safety, resources and the environment, the arts and creative expression, economic opportunity and leadership,” Johnson said. “The RAISE initiative will also include the goal of 100 underrepresented …