Diversity In Practice

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article about diversity in faculty hiring by the chairman of an English Dept. in a large midwestern public university.

It could be, and I suspect often is, a lot worse.

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  1. Rich August 13, 2004 at 3:06 pm | | Reply

    I think NASA has it simpler launching the shuttle. And I can’t imagine that all this process is without cost, considerable cost I should think. I wonder how much the costs of admission and study are inflated by this activity?

    And I also wonder if, between all the reviews, they find any time to teach?

    Rich

  2. Fleming August 15, 2004 at 2:16 pm | | Reply

    Rich is correct, that the nightmarish maze-like procedures for achieving “diversity” causes desperate cost inflation for universities.

    But the cost is not only economic. The cost is in loss of excellence, when ideal candidates are tossed away for having the wrong color skin or the wrong type of tissue between his legs.

    The cost is in performance in teaching, research, and administration at universities. The cost in government for similar policies is incalculable. The cost for corporations pursuing the diversity demon can be tallied on the stock market and unemployment figures.

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