Posted on 05/11/2022 11:28:06 AM PDT by karpov
Since the early 1960s, universities have sought to achieve racial equality. Initiatives have ranged from offering extra tutoring for struggling minority students to making them more comfortable on campus by providing segregated housing and black-only graduation ceremonies. Unfortunately, nothing has worked.
Now, after over a half century of trying everything imaginable and sparing no expense, what is left? Never underestimate determined professors chasing Utopian fantasies. The latest racial equality measures are now transpiring at the University of Illinois-Urbana, a school where I spent 28 years as a professor of Political Science.
In a nutshell, all professors up for tenure or promotion—including those in the hard sciences such as physics and engineering–must submit a statement about their personal commitment to diversity. Currently, this is voluntary, but it will soon be mandatory.
According to the University’s Provost, the university must “catalyze innovation and discovery, find novel and proactive ways to educate students from all walks of life, and develop ever-deeper connections with the public we serve.” In their diversity statements, candidates should “include a discussion of the context, importance, and impact of their contributions along with their future plans for contributions. The candidate may choose to organize the statement by topic, activity, domain (e.g., research, teaching, and service), or in another manner.”
In other words, even if you are teaching electrical engineering, be prepared to be judged by how you contribute to the campuses’ “…diversity, equity, and inclusion activities and their impact.”
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The good non Illinois schools in Indiana,Iowa and ?, will welcome even more good students leaving Illinois for good educations.
Good online colleges will continue to grow.
Segregated housing, All black Graduation ceremonies and now
a statement about their personal commitment to diversity.
Oh Hell yes! That just may do the trick. If not..........
Next every black youth in Illinois will be guaranteed a college diploma. Just endorse that College Loan or more likely, that College Grant over to the University and we will send you a diploma embossed with a 14 carat gold seal.
There is no need to even show up at the school, in fact it will probably be best for them to simply stay with their peers in the hood.
re Good online colleges!:
https://online.wharton.upenn.edu/
https://online.purdue.edu/#:~:text=EXPLORE-,ONLINE,-PROGRAMS
Right, because the professors would never lie to keep their jobs. /s
I never understood this. I guess assimilation is abhorrent less Blacks start thinking for themselves and not as one group all voting Democrat.
D.I.E. is what they want for Asian and White people.
The “final solution” is the only way the left can guarantee “equity”.
Never underestimate the stupidity of do-gooders. Deep down they’re also tyrants.
It used to be Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
DIE.
It still is.
Our ‘education’ system is toxic.
Equity = Equality of Outcome. A concept so stupid on its face that only the “education” establishment could embrace it. Eventually this will mean automatic A’s for everyone. Let the employers sort it out.
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Equity just means equal share of crap.No thanks
Another college willingly doing its part in the Fundamental Transformation of America, I.E. the Great Replacement.
bump
As Thomas Sowell aptly put it, “There are some ideas so idiotic only academics could come up with them.”
Here is my diversity statement: every student in my class will be evaluated by the same set of standards without regard to race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or other personal factors.
This was on a job board I frequent for my industry.
Nothing about the actual job until the very end. I am assuming this is what the $500,000 per year “chief inclusion officer” writes all day.
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