Posted on 01/10/2022 7:52:13 AM PST by karpov
Are you a freshly-minted Ph.D. holder interested in becoming a tenure-track computer science professor at UNC-Chapel Hill? First, you’ll have to submit a “diversity statement” describing your “commitment to diversity.”
Candidates seeking to be an assistant professor at Boston University’s business school should include references to the “diversity contributions” they would bring in their cover letter, taking care to demonstrate that they fall in line with the college’s “institutional commitment” to maintaining an “inclusive, equitable, and diverse” campus. Anyone applying for open tenure-track positions in George Mason University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department will be “expected” to “embrace” and “advance” the school’s “strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” And those interested in teaching human anatomy at East Carolina University should present “statements” describing their “experience with” and “commitment” to “equity and diversity in teaching, research, and service.”
Along with the standard parts of an application for a job in academia―a curriculum vitae, transcripts, personal statements, references, and research experience―more and more universities, both in North Carolina and across the country, are evaluating whether candidates conform with institutional commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
According to a recent study by the American Enterprise Institute, approximately one in five university-sponsored faculty job postings require potential employees to submit statements in support of DEI initiatives as a part of their applications, while nearly seventy percent mention the words “diversity” or “diverse.” In one instance at the University of California, Berkeley, the think tank’s report noted (citing Andrew Gillen), 679 of 893―or more than three-quarters―of qualified applicants for a faculty position in the life sciences were eliminated from “serious consideration” after their “contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion” failed to meet the “high standard” set by the university.
UNC-Chapel Hill itself admits that acquiescence to DEI policies affects personnel decisions.
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Could they be any more overt as indoctrination centers now?
Things are getting more disgusting by the minute.
Everyone MUST be on the same page.
The state legislatures fund those dumps.
They can always tell them to quit discriminating politically.
That they dont tells you who they really are.
Any genuine conservative administration should use existing civil rights laws, conspiracy charges and RICO to just round up many administrators and faculty.
To communists and their near cousins, socialists, “diversity” does not mean variety of opinions. It means the polar opposite. It means creating and perpetuating a hive mind.
LOL!! These idiots are cutting their own throats. I doubt if there are any universities in 12 months any way.
“our strength is our perversity”
Rush Limbaugh parody
How can it be that large numbers of papers can't be replicated, yet the authors of these papers are not held accountable - or lose their ill-begotten promotions up the academic ranks? Science and politics are now joined at the hip, and it does not bode well for the world.
I think a conservative Christian would be just the one to bring diversity to one of those campuses.
The DOJ should investigate this discrimination at once.
In the unlikely event that conservatives ever gain control of one of these institutions, we should adopt the standard that “demonstrated commitment” to DEI is heavily weighted towards active, consistent support for full school choice, workfare, and pro-family policies at all levels of government. These things would actually tangibly affect the negative factors that are sabotaging the underclass (of all races) today.
A red state governor might actually be able to pull this off if he paid attention to the trustees of the state university.
They are just discovering this now? It’s been this way for at least 20 years.
“The state legislatures fund those dumps.
They can always tell them to quit discriminating politically.
That they dont tells you who they really are.”
Some state, some private. So cutting off funding to the state schools would be easy and quickly get their attention. For the private schools (and also useful for the state schools) would be ending federal student loans (obviously not possible with this Congress and president, but something that should have been done decades ago when this crap started).
My son had to do the same when applying for public health at the University of Washington....for his undergraduate major.
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