I think I would get a minus score if I interviewed with them.
Posted on 02/03/2020 5:54:21 PM PST by karpov
The University of California has been requiring prospective faculty members to affirm that they support diversity. This was Orwellian in its own right—reminiscent of the university system's 1950s loyalty oaths, which required faculty to attest that they were not members of the Communist Party.
It now appears that at one campus, UC-Berkeley, the diversity initiative goes much further than previously understood. Whether a candidate has proposed a specific, concrete plan to advance diversity is now being used as a litmus test for some positions. No candidate who fails the test can even be considered for employment.
Abigail Thompson, a UC-Davis math professor and department chair, sounded the alarm regarding the modern-day loyalty oaths in a December Wall Street Journal piece. Thompson wrote that increasing diversity is a laudable goal but requiring prospective hires to pledge fealty to the concept seems like forcing them to subscribe "to a particular political ideology."
Sure enough, a report on Berkeley's diversity initiative—recently publicized by Jerry Coyne and John Cochrane—shows that eight different departments affiliated with the life sciences used a diversity rubric to weed out applicants for positions. This was the first step: In one example, of a pool of 894 candidates was narrowed down to 214 based solely on how convincing their plans to spread diversity were.
Berkeley's diversity rubric shows just how much specificity was expected. Three aspects of the applicants' diversity statements were graded on a five-point scale: knowledge of diversity, experience in advancing diversity, and a plan for advancing diversity in the future. The highest possible score was thus a 15. Discounting the importance of diversity, failing to specifically discuss gender and race, and making only vague statements ... were listed as the kinds of things that would earn the lowest possible score.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
That has been my college’s policy for some time.
Berzerkly.
I guess if you’re “white,” your first option would pretty much have to be “don’t hire me.”
Self identify as black.
The concept of meritocracy is dead to the modern Left.
That's certainly obvious when you look at the Democrat party's Presidential candidates.
We had it with our recent Dem gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, as well. Also the last two Dem 6th CD candidates, the second of which won.
:-(
It isn’t just Berkley or the social justice / grievance programs.
The Institutionalization of Social Justice
https://quillette.com/2018/11/17/the-institutionalization-of-social-justice/
The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2018/11/the-rise-of-engineerings-social-justice-warriors/
I think I would get a minus score if I interviewed with them.
I propose that only Trump supporters be hired until fully half of the Berkeley faculty are right wing Republicans. And half of the faculty must be opposed to diversity so we'll have a true diversity in opinion.
If you're going down, it might as well be in spectacular flames.
Perhaps now they are required to attest that they ARE communists.
The Houston area is having to deal with the same company regarding the new Ship Channel Bridge.
CONFORM OR BE CAST OUT!
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