Harvard professor quits, challenges dean on diversity

BG News ^ | 15 Sept | U-wire(?)

[flowerplough]

Government professor Lisa L. Martin, who served as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' first diversity dean and chair of the Standing Committee on Women, has left Harvard for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, criticizing Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith's commitment to hiring minority and female professors on her way out.

As a leader of female and minority recruitment, Martin compiled and released two reports on hiring. Her first report raised alarm when it found that the female tenure rate in 2005-2006 had fallen to 21 percent - half the rate of the previous year.

Martin started a mentoring program for untenured female professors, where junior professors would be paired with senior faculty from a different department within the same division. The program, she said, enabled junior faculty to discuss sensitive department issues if needed. Fifty untenured faculty members and 25 tenured professors participated, according to Martin.

But now, Martin said in an interview, she is worried that some of the programs she started may not continue.

[flowerplough]

Affirmative Action Diversi-token quits & then wonders if all the Diversity-Affirming make-work she established will be continued and expanded? Silly girl. Doesn't she know that her replacement will have her own new Diversi-Goals and her own new Diversi-Plans? Among many mammalian species, the new Alpha Female will drive away or kill the offspring of the previous Herd Bossette, upon taking power. Why should we expect humans to be above such Darwinian cruelties?

[Tublecane]

I thought two wrongs don’t make a right. How can these supposed liberals live with creating their own class system? Have they at long last no shame?

[bballbob]

Another reason I won’t be contributing to the UW, my alma mater.

[catpuppy]

diversity dean

And they call this higher education ...

[philled]

It is sad that this is even considered newsworthy. This woman has got to be a real ball of fun. Perhaps she will find Madistan even more conducive to her bitterness. I’m sure that Larry Sumners will be glad to write her a letter of recommendation.

[delacoert]

...the new Alpha Female will drive away or kill the offspring of the previous Herd Bossette, upon taking power.

Perfect description of all that is wrong with university administators of any gender.

[SkyPilot]

College and University tuition continues to rise at 3 times the rate of inflation, every year.

Why?

Salaries, pensions, health benefits for the institutions.

Also, crappola "chairs" and new "departments" that have NOTHING to do with higher education, but are horrific politics and sin at their worst.

But the GOOD new to parents is: "You get to Pay for this!"

When I went to college, I studied Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering.

[jeffc]

Why do liberals keep insisting diversity is only skin-deep? True diversity means different ideas and beliefs, but to a liberal it means a white, a black, a man, a woman, and possibly several goats (OK, I'm kidding about the goats . . .) working together - but all with the same political beliefs (preferably liberal)!

In truth, diversity is anathema. People tend to gravitate to people they are similar to in beliefs anyway.
To meet new people and ideas at school or the workplace or visiting different lands works, but forcing people to associate with others in their neighborhoods and personal lives gets people to withdraw further from society and makes them distrustful of others.

[Clock King]

These leftists are overgrown children. They expect jobs and titles and respect to just fall out of the sky. Like little kids playing at a tea party. There’s not a damn thing stopping minorities and women from applying to professorships, DOING THEIR JOB, performing real scholarly work, and putting in the time to be granted tenure. You gotta personal issue with someone, stand up for yourself. That’s what adults are expected to do.

[peeps36]

Qualifications mean nothing to the diversity police. They ruin employee morale every time they promote some incompetent dope based solely on gender or race. How can they justify giving special treatment to Spanish citizens who came to this country just like Italians,Irish and other immigrants? Only the twisted mind of a liberal could justify the discrimination against white men based on something that happened 150 years ago.

[bvw]

I like your writing style.

Would you know who and when Queen Athalia was?

Everyone should.

[Chode]

i'd say Conservatives are about the smallest minority in the faculty there is... but i doubt she wants more of them.

[muir_redwoods]

"Harvard professor quits, challenges dean on diversity"

First there's a 500 point drop in the Dow and now this!!!

When will this nightmare end?

[Eagles6]

"Her criticisms come at a time when the Harvard has turned its attention to the racial climate on campus. University President Drew G. Faust created a committee to review the Harvard University Police Department's policies following an incident involving two police officers last month."

I believe one incident involved a black non-student who was using tools to take a lock off of his bike after he lost the key. The police stopped and checked it out. The other incident involved a prof. who resembled a rape suspect they were looking for.

Both incidents are common sense police work.

That being said, if you needed brain surgery would you request the best neurosurgeon or a (insert aggrieved minority group here) neurosurgeon?