Posted on 09/29/2016 11:19:56 AM PDT by sparklite2
An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’
While giving a talk about Minority Serving Institutions at a recent higher education forum, I was asked a question pertaining to the lack of faculty of color at many majority institutions, especially more elite institutions.
My response was frank: “The reason we don’t have more faculty of color among college faculty is that we don’t want them. We simply don’t want them.” Those in the audience were surprised by my candor and gave me a round of applause for the honesty.
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That’s the same reason there are so few conservative proffessors at our universities.
It is all about rankings at the end of the day. People aren’t willing to spend $50k annually if they think their faculty is picked from the affirmative action pool.
To which “WE” is he referring? Liberals? Professors? Academia in general?
As OP It would be appropriate for you to point out that white is a color.
“The reason we don’t have more faculty of color among college faculty is that we don’t want them. We simply don’t want them.”
HOGWASH! They want them desperately and find all sorts of ways to lower their standards to do it, but they can only do that so much and the simple fact is most black and hispanic PhDs are of a poorer quality in terms of scholarship. I saw this FIRST HAND while I worked on my PhD. Black and hispanic candidates were given all sorts of extras and advantages simply because they had brown skin but often could not get or keep a coveted university position because they were sub-par as scholars. They were paid more, allowed to bypass department rules, given more time to finish their dissertations, openly recruited for their race, and protected if accused of improper actions. And they largely failed anyway. They got fired, failed to secure tenure, failed to publish as needed, sexually harassed their students, were poor instructors, and considered little more than affirmative action show pieces.
And the NBA just does not want to hire white players.
Maybe some people still think that merit should be the standard.
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“As OP It would be appropriate for you to point out that white is a color.”
Per current linguistics, the phrase: “of color” is short for Non-Anglo-Saxon, or “pretty much anybody who ain’t whitey”.
I went to school in the late ‘70’s. I hated our overly diverse faculty. They often did not speak English well enough to be understandable. Another problem is that some of them intentionally made the material inaccessible and overly complicated. It was some sort of foreign ego issue.
No, there were no black American teachers. The whole affirmative action thing had not come about yet. I feel for competent blacks as they are tainted with the stench from the vast number of essentially illiterate “graduates.”
Maybe, maybe not. I come down in the ‘no, white is the absence of all color,’ crowd.
http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/are-black-and-white-colors
I got a Masters in Education about 15 years ago and a few of the minority students actually failed some of the courses. They had made it through their undergraduate programs and couldn’t even speak English at a HS level.
We were supposed to debate difficult problems in the education field. One topic was, “Why do blacks score lower on standardized IQ Tests than Asians and whites.” The black woman in the class heard the question and got up and stormed out of the classroom because she felt it was racist. It was a fact. If we can’t even mention a fact, how can we ever talk about the solutions?
You’re easily misled.
Facts are racist.
Everybody knows that.
Phony puppet mimicking the “racist” theme of the leftists.
The truth is that these universities have blackballed professors who “don’t agree with them” and won’t hire them. The social sciences got cleaned out by the late 80’s. What was left were pretenders like this non-thinker.
Why don’t colleges and universities hire, retain, and promote conservatives? Answer: they don’t want them.
Whenever someone starts using “diversity” as a measuring stick, they reveal that they have started using race
as a primary factor in assessing someone.
And that in itself, besides denying individual personality, is racist.
Facts don’t seem to be as grounded as we would like.
During the Cold War, I went to the Canadian National Exhibition which featured among many things a Soviet bookstore. The books were inexpensive, probably due to the fact they were, in our eyes, propaganda. I bought several.
One book was titled “British Foreign Policy in WWII.”
The wartime events described in the book were all factual, as agreed upon by the victors, anyway. It would be too obvious to lie about generally accepted facts. But the interpretation placed on the motivation for the events and similar subjective examinations rendered a portrait of a beleaguered USSR who won the European war herself despite her ‘allies.’
They did not dispute the facts. But by the time they had finished painting their interpretations of them, the facts meant things very different from what you and I would have seen, and seemed grounded in a different reality, a reality perceived through communist eyes.
Why we want to go back to the early 20th century & 19th century on this matter, I'll never know.
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