Yeah, right. To talk and do science though, requires thought - reasoning, rational minds, not skin-color. Not sex.
The quota system is alive in all our universities, giving the under-talented an opportunity to crusade for their causes at the expense of true education. This will be the downfall of our universities.
**Broadening the talent pool increases the talent.**
Bovine feces.
As a Course 8 alum (both undergrad and grad), I am disgusted with my alma mater. First they get rid of the registration-day porn, and now this.
And Transparent Horizons is still butt-ugly.
> At MIT we constantly strive for excellence in everything we do.
Yet the announce that excellence is secondary to demographics.
Yes, I'm sure pro and college football and basketball coaches have diversity as their paramount objective. That's why you see mostly black halfbacks and defensive backs in the NFL and why so many major college and pro basketball teams have virtually all black players./s
Whatever your endeavor, if you want to succeed, you get the best people available regardless of their skin color or place of origin.
Maybe they could draw potential rocket scientists from Mexico or Zimbabwe?
There is an opportunity for a lower-tier university to leap-frog into the upper tier here if they have the guts to forego diversitah and affirmative action.
“Our level of excellence will be improved if we sample from the most inclusive population.”
This and most of the other sentences caused big why’s to fly up from my brain.
Even “being a physicist isn’t easy” needs inspection. Once you are a physicist, what makes “being” one harder than, say, “being” a dentist or a classicist?
The federal government is corrupting everything.
I wonder if Asians as well as Hispanics are shocked to find out they aren’t white.
A nugget! The only accurate statement in the article.
If you seek diversity instead of talent you are going to more diversity and less talent. Furthermore you are going to reject highly qualified students who may solve the problem of faster than light travel who decide to become lawyers instead.
The goal of more and better scientists is only achieved by selecting the Best and the Brightest regardless of race or gender. Anything less and you will degrade the quality of your student body. And, that is exactly what we see happening.
OK.
I hereby call upon all white, male tenured faculty to resign their posts immediately, so as to make room for a new, all-minority staff.
I'll step over to the side here, lest the stampede of departures bowls me over....
“Like in many physics departments”
Excellence in writing, too.
It’s a good thing it’s not important. If it were important like, say, the NFL this wouldn’t come up.
How many white males do they have in their women’s studies department?
OK, it’s MIT, so maybe they don’t have one, but as a whole, men are underrepresented in higher ed in the 40-60 range (or worse). Tell them to shove that stat up their Title IX
In other words sacrifice quality for diversity.
Diversity is achieved only when the number of minority residents reaches the limit of the financial ability of white people to support them through involuntary taxation.
Clearly, I did not paint with a broad enough brush. In this case, the limiting factor will be having just enough whites and Asians to handle the teaching and clean up the messes in the labs.
“Broadening the talent pool increases the talent.”
Gee? I wonder how they are doing in Africa in these advanced studies and technologies? I don’t think they are doing very well because they don’t have enough whites working there...huh?
History will write a chapter in the future about the “dumbing down” of everything simply in the name of diversity.
Nature has taken its course and the cream has risen to the top...and it is white and yellow...not black or brown.
At MIT we constantly strive for excellence in everything we do. Our level of excellence will be improved if we sample from the most inclusive population.
. . . said no white man who was concerned about his own career and his own mortgage and his own family. Or that of his son-in-law . . .
The libs think tanks dream up these meaningless lines to support discrimination.