Posted on 11/15/2022 9:09:38 AM PST by karpov
The increasing use of “diversity statements” in hiring and faculty evaluation has provoked considerable concern from free-speech advocates and defenders of academic freedom. An American Enterprise Institute study last November found that these statements were required for 19 percent of academic jobs and were especially common at prestigious universities. The danger of the trend is perhaps best illustrated by a University of California, Berkeley, search that filtered applications in the biological sciences for “contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion.” This eliminated 679 of 893 nominally qualified candidates on DEI criteria alone. Organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the Academic Freedom Alliance have demanded an end to the mandatory use of these statements.
The problem is that diversity statements can be used to discriminate against candidates with particular worldviews, notably the classical liberal view that people should be treated equally as individuals, rather than differently based on their membership in demographic groups. Universities don’t come right out and say that classical liberal views are verboten, but they make it clear that preference will be accorded to statements that reflect, for example, “continuous participation in events and organizations geared toward advancing DEI […] e.g., community activism.” Believing in equal opportunity would place a candidate at a distinct disadvantage.
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So if I want to teach electromagnetic basics or circuits and systems, I have to do so in a diverse manner? I wonder how you adapt that to Maxwell’s Equations?
In the end, diversity leads to blind airline pilots.
In Oregon, this is used by some state agencies in hiring managers.
Karl Marx said math and science are only reliable when they’re applied through sound Marxist thinking. Everything is political to the left.
If you’re teaching optics you need to focus on dispersion and diffraction... well I guess focus is the wrong word...
The personal life is dead. Now everyone will be judged politically. - Dr Zhivago
These people don’t seem to understand that the end result of their DIE approach is corrective labor (concentration) camps and very active tiled cellars in the basements of security services. But they will finally understand once they are facing the tiled wall - just before their end.
Which is how you get a Lysenko and millions of dead. Have we - they - learned nothing?
They should be more concerned with why 4 students have committed suicide since August!
Diversity in computer science means your recursive algorithms need to traverse paths either depth-first or breadth-first. Race of the coder is irrelevant.
No more DC.
It is not diverse.
And switches are not allowed.
They stop freedom loving electrons.
And the rest of the circuit components and ICs benefit from the current’s work, without any pay.
the only diversity that should be in STEM, is of the STEM courses offered...
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