MIT will no longer require diversity statements for hiring faculty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a professor, and we are now rated every year on how we incorporate DEI into our teaching (regardless if the topic). It is an over correction.

So much of the response is performative.

(And trust me, much of it is driven by the accreditation bodies).

Of course it’s performative. And I think that’s why a lot of POC (myself included) don’t buy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a professor, and we are now rated every year on how we incorporate DEI into our teaching (regardless if the topic). It is an over correction.

So much of the response is performative.

(And trust me, much of it is driven by the accreditation bodies).

That is so interesting.

I’m amazed the pendulum might be coming back after swinging that high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The mediocre white boys are breaking out the champagne!

Boo, racist.

Another graduate of the David Duke school of public relation - calling anyone who acknowledges racism a racist. Don’t y’all see how obvious this tired tactic is?

News flash — acknowledging that academia and the world of scientific research in particular put huge and often insurmountable boundaries in the way of smart people who aren’t from the right background.

Also, social science research is increasing recognizing the blinding obvious truth that having no one with any lived experience of a topic involved in designing research about the topic leads to sub-optimal outcomes.

And clearly the propagandist troll who started this troll by calling DEI “Stalinist” knows absolutely nothing about it it they think that white people from Appalachia (like me) aren’t among the groups that DEI is intended to help.

Try harder Ivan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank god we are now moving in the right direction.

I used to be very liberal, most of family and friends are liberal, but the nonsense with whole DEI made it hard for me to support liberals.

Why does a professor applying to fluid dynamics research funding needs to a 3 page document on how they practiced DEI? This is a screen one needs to pass to be even considered for the funding!

+1.

[Anonymous]

Is the pendulum truly swinging back? That is a real question; I am genuinely curious if there are other signs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the pendulum truly swinging back? That is a real question; I am genuinely curious if there are other signs

Many companies are dialing back their DEI initiatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the pendulum truly swinging back? That is a real question; I am genuinely curious if there are other signs

I don't think it's swinging back yet. Performative virtue signaling is deeply enmeshed in academia. You need to do it to get hired, to get tenure, promotions, etc. And that has created an entire generation of department heads and administrators who owe their positions to their success in navigating the DEI game. They are not going away. It's only when funding becomes an issue that there might be some pushback. MIT is a private institution that can afford to do whatever it wants. Other schools can't so they tread much more carefully. And at pretty much all universities, vocally opposing DEI mandates remains a career killer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the pendulum truly swinging back? That is a real question; I am genuinely curious if there are other signs

Many companies are dialing back their DEI initiatives.

+1
Bravo to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god we are now moving in the right direction.

I used to be very liberal, most of family and friends are liberal, but the nonsense with whole DEI made it hard for me to support liberals.

Why does a professor applying to fluid dynamics research funding needs to a 3 page document on how they practiced DEI? This is a screen one needs to pass to be even considered for the funding!

Did you know that MIT hires teachers and leaders to be professors?
They don't hire low level grunt researchers.

Um... of course they hire low level grunt researchers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good riddance! Attacking merit is fundamentally wrong.

The progressive “social justice warriors” have taken their extreme agenda down to the elementary school level.

There, they seek to “close the racial achievement gap from the top down” by eliminating from public education all advanced, accelerated, and G&T programs (see: NYC, Seattle, CA).

They will effectively dumb-down the entire US public school population if allowed to succeed.

Soon, the only candidates capable of admission to MIT will come from private high schools or directly from overseas.

[Anonymous]

Do you think fear of litigation is driving any of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank god we are now moving in the right direction.

I used to be very liberal, most of family and friends are liberal, but the nonsense with whole DEI made it hard for me to support liberals.

Why does a professor applying to fluid dynamics research funding needs to a 3 page document on how they practiced DEI? This is a screen one needs to pass to be even considered for the funding!

Spoken like a true cisgender white male lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god we are now moving in the right direction.

I used to be very liberal, most of family and friends are liberal, but the nonsense with whole DEI made it hard for me to support liberals.

Why does a professor applying to fluid dynamics research funding needs to a 3 page document on how they practiced DEI? This is a screen one needs to pass to be even considered for the funding!

Spoken like a true cisgender white male lol.

DP - Or a person concerned with quality. A professor's merit should be the focus and every institution should uphold the practice of not tolerating bigotry of any kind.

Anyone with non-POC children is wondering what this will do to their offspring's future prospects. They're innocents, yet ultra libs will gladly rant on why they must pay for the past. I keep thinking about these poor kids that went to high school on screens without a hint of a social life and now they're entering colleges and job markets that tell them they're not the right color. Talk about bleak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god we are now moving in the right direction.

I used to be very liberal, most of family and friends are liberal, but the nonsense with whole DEI made it hard for me to support liberals.

Why does a professor applying to fluid dynamics research funding needs to a 3 page document on how they practiced DEI? This is a screen one needs to pass to be even considered for the funding!

Spoken like a true cisgender white male lol.

Or spoken like a concerned citizen! Why does identity have to permeate every discussion? The PP may be wrong and you may be right. But why bring in identity to frame all arguments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a professor, and we are now rated every year on how we incorporate DEI into our teaching (regardless if the topic). It is an over correction.

So much of the response is performative.

(And trust me, much of it is driven by the accreditation bodies).

I suspected this was less an agenda of the left and more corporations trying to CYA or look like they were doing something.