Posted on 05/06/2024 12:22:08 AM PDT by Stravinsky
In what’s likely to be a watershed moment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ended the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring, making it the first elite private university to backtrack on the practice that has been roundly criticised as a political litmus test.
On Saturday, an MIT spokesperson confirmed in an email to me that “requests for a statement on diversity will no longer be part of applications for any faculty positions at MIT”, adding that the decision was made by embattled MIT President Sally Kornbluth “with the support of the Provost, Chancellor, and all six academic deans”.
The decision marks an inflection point in the battle over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education. Since at least the late 2010s, diversity statements have been ubiquitous in faculty hiring, sometimes carrying serious weight in the selection process. As one dean at Emory University put it while describing her approach to hiring, “Diversity statement, then dossier.”
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Granting professorships to unqualified applicants will set us on the road to Idiocracy!
It’s a STEM school. How many of those worthless, unemployable majors exist at MIT? DEI hires have no place there.
BTTT
They should have been called Advance Stockholm Syndrome Statements.
Where has that man been in This Guy’s life.
To track his progress on YouTube videos (celebrity sit-in for local news in South Dakota, curling championships in Canada) is to guess that he’s on the hunt for fresh news stories at the North Pole. And presumably not finding much.
Along with forced entertaining of peoples mental illness we had to endure forced DEI hires across the board. Whos crazier those who force it or those who sit by silently and accept it
Oh dear. I think the editors at Physics Today will be having a sad. They’ve really been pushing this sort of crap.
Wait - whut? You mean a Technical Institute that deals with math and hard science has discovered that qualifications are more important than “diversity?
Go figure....
They didn’t have to go to MIT to figure that one out.
MIT, my pronouns are Geek and Nerd.
MIT finally realized its value as “MIT” was being damaged.
Stanford has NOT realized this and continues to march to oblivion.
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