Posted on 09/07/2022 12:48:23 PM PDT by karpov
A constant concern in my academic sub-field of comparative politics is how to create concepts and measurements that stand up to scrutiny when applied to several cases. When we hear someone claim that politics in Country X are “corrupt,” our first questions are “What do you mean by corruption?” and “Compared to where?”
This concern with measuring things consistently and properly motivated me, in my advocacy role with the National Association of Scholars (NAS), to develop a way to measure the spread of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology in colleges and universities. The oft-heard complaint that a given institution has been “taken over” by DEI raises the question of whether such a takeover is the same and is equally extensive in all places. Surely not, and if we can compare the worst affected to the least affected, perhaps there are lessons to be learned about the conditions that cause DEI to spread or be arrested.
Last week, the Oregon Association of Scholars, which I head, released a diagnostic tool following consultations with my colleagues in the NAS. This tool conceptualizes “DEI sickness” as an institutionalization of DEI ideology within a given college or university. This includes, for instance, DEI-based policies and practices, mandatory DEI-based trainings and litmus tests, and DEI-based funding models.
The new diagnostic tool does not measure the popularity of DEI ideology on campus or the proliferation of DEI-based courses and programs, both of which may rise and fall under normal conditions of free thought. Rather, it measures the extent to which DEI ideology has been given a fixed status that both imposes it on all members of the campus community and insulates it from criticism and shrinkage.
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OPUS DEI?......................
Pinochet had a cure. And lookit that, Chileans just overwhelmingly rejected the new socialist post-Pinochet constitution that was proposed. Seems they’re pretty happy not living with Communists anymore.
DEI/BDS = 2 sides of the same coin
We have far too much ‘diversity’. What we need is UNITY, in God and Country.
By the way, only a moron should try to measure DIE. The definitions of things are a moving target. DIE means whatever what they want it to be mean and changes as often as their pronouns and genders. It’s a complete waste of time and anyone that speaks of DIE as being something good needs a punch in the mouth, metaphorically speaking.
No. Diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).
Good!
You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
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