Posted on 05/26/2020 5:24:55 PM PDT by fluorescence
Colleges are laying off their adjunct faculty, who mostly are women and people of color.
Keisha Blain attended a top program in her field, collaborated with renowned scholars and wrote an award-winning dissertation — all of which she was sure would lead to an immediate and secure academic appointment.
But upon graduating from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in history in 2014, she discovered that she had vastly underestimated the number of scholars seeking tenure-track positions. Blain was competing not only against her direct peers, but also against talented scholars who hadn't been able to find steady work in the aftermath of the 2008 economic recession and had become even more competitive applicants in the intervening years.
"That's when I realized all along that I had felt some undue sense of security," said Blain, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in African American history.
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administrators may perceive departments like African American studies and women and gender studies as "low-hanging fruit during periods of deep budget cuts" because their market value isn't as immediately evident as it is for a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) department, Doe said.
Blain echoed Doe's concern that departments like ethnic studies, which have served as "gateways for scholars of color, who have often been excluded from older, more traditional departments," will be targeted in cuts because their purpose has been misunderstood.
"Whereas people see African American studies as a black space or the product of black people angrily demanding more black professors, it actually exists because a multicultural coalition of students across various races and ethnicities recognized that we could not have a democracy without making sure diverse voices were included in how we teach our history and culture,"
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So Colleges discriminate based on gender and race?
Go to Redmond or Bellevue,Washington. Its more like Mumbai than the United States.
Tucker Carlson just had a segment on this...
No more H1B’s.
“Equal Opportunity” (unless you’re White or Asian)
Wrong.
Dot Indians and Communist Chinese foriegners absolutely dominate STEM fields. White Americans - or any other Americans for that matter - are basically banned from working in these fields.
Friendly suggestion. Do an apprenticeship in HVAC, plumbing, or as an electrician. Or learn to code maybe.
Lineman or electrical distribution design.
I guess it matters the field. Electric utilities are still mostly White.
Wonder how many White/Indian/Chinese professors teach "African-American History"? Or do "people of color demand this be their domain"?
Wow the area must of really changed since the 80’s. ...
“Ohio University eliminated its English Language Improvement Program, a vital resource for students seeking help with language learning.”
What the hell are they doing in college if they aren’t proficient in English?
Eastern King County went from < 1% Indian about 20 years ago to over 60% Indian. Most happened after Microsoft hired an Indian CEO
Sounds like it should be tied to an overall history class. Not a degree unto itself.
Basically a degree that teaches people to think they are victims when they are living in a country where you have more god given opportunity than anywhere on earth.
Used to teach a lot of remedial Math Army unit classes at UMUC over in Germany. Nothing wrong with teaching basic skills to soldiers.
Oh, was this about soldiers?
Yeah, just commenting that colleges do teach remedial classes. I know the English Department at UMUC taught remedial English classes to soldiers are well. So there is a place for these types of classes, at least with the military.
“administrators may perceive departments like African American studies and women and gender studies as “low-hanging fruit during periods of deep budget cuts” because their market value isn’t as immediately evident as it is for a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) department, Doe said. “
Ya think?!
STEM degrees are worthless for Americans, as long as we are barred from these positions.
It is estimated 75% of American STEM graduates cannot find employment in their field upon graduation. Those jobs going to OPTs, H1Bs or H4EADs
I was thinking that it ain’t diversity - it’s decor...
That hasn’t happened recently has it? 😁
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