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A New College “Racism” Study Really May Be Peak Woke
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 22, 2024 | Peter Wood

Posted on 11/23/2024 12:57:36 PM PST by karpov

Do black faculty members face discrimination in promotion and tenure? One might think this a simple question with an objective answer. The answer could be, “Yes. Black faculty members face invidious racial discrimination.” Or it might be, “Yes. Black faculty members are beneficiaries of lower standards based on favorable racial discrimination.” Or, yet again, it could be, “Both kinds of discrimination occur, sometimes in the same institution, and both can be hard to document.” Then again still, the answer might be, “Racial discrimination in faculty promotion and tenure is rare and exceptional.”

This is a topic on which I have done no original research, though that doesn’t stop me from having an opinion, based on some 50 years of my life spent in and around colleges and universities. Let me put that opinion out in the open so that no one need invoke “implicit bias.” Every college or university I enrolled in as a student, worked in as a faculty member or administrator, or examined as an accreditor or researcher was strongly dedicated to opposing invidious racial discrimination but was lenient towards black faculty members who fell short of prevailing standards. Often, no leniency was needed, but sometimes it was. A black faculty member might be extended extra time on his tenure clock, granted a reduced course load in order to complete a book manuscript, or given special consideration for exceptional teaching or “service to the community.”

I seldom saw such leniency extended to anyone else, and I never heard anyone in the academic community take exception to it. The prevailing sentiment, whether in a small liberal-arts college or a major research university, was always that it was morally right and socially wise to “go the extra mile.”

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: academia; college

1 posted on 11/23/2024 12:57:36 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

This article proves without a shadow of a doubt that wokism and leftism are mental disorders of the highest order.


2 posted on 11/23/2024 1:19:50 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: karpov
“Yes. Black faculty members are beneficiaries of lower standards based on favorable racial discrimination.”

In 36 years in the aerospace industry this is what I saw. When I was in a position of hiring, and there was pressure to hire black engineers, I did the extra work and hired very good black engineers. And the programs in my division always wanted to use the black engineers I hired because they were good and not a drag on the project.

3 posted on 11/23/2024 1:23:48 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: karpov

I still believe universities have morphed from institutes of higher learning into cesspools of disinformation and most professors are just turds floating around those cesspools regardless of their color. I don’t believe STEM professors and their students have taken that plunge ... yet.


4 posted on 11/23/2024 1:53:57 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: karpov

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5 posted on 11/23/2024 5:27:17 PM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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