UNC Board of Govs Votes to Drop DEI Requirements in Hiring

[Anonymous]

Vote was taken last Thursday. Effectively immediately, UNC will no longer require faculty and other applicants to submit or sign DEI statements. This is major for a university system that is as prominent and well-regarded as UNC:

https://news.yahoo.com/unc-chapel-hill-drops-dei-171845537.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

[Anonymous]

OP. How do you think this will impact students?

[Anonymous]

It is happening in the UT system too.

UNC's Board is really conservative. None of this is surprising.

[Anonymous]

Good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is happening in the UT system too.

UNC's Board is really conservative. None of this is surprising.

If unc board is conservative why does unc have affirmative action?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is happening in the UT system too.

UNC's Board is really conservative. None of this is surprising.

If unc board is conservative why does unc have affirmative action?

Accepting x% of instate students is not “affirmative action.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is happening in the UT system too.

UNC's Board is really conservative. None of this is surprising.

If unc board is conservative why does unc have affirmative action?

It might not anymore after the spring Supreme Court ruling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Isn't the case which the discrimination case against asians and white people which Supreme court is ruling on related to UNC and Harvard? If so, wouldn't this decision would be in line with the idea that no race should be preferred over another, correct?

[Anonymous]

Did signing this statement actually mean anything? De facto?

[Anonymous]

In 2023, DEI is much less about race or national origin and more about removing barriers to college for low SES students. So colleges do special out reach and waive fees for FARMs and first Gen kids. They put them in special mentor groups because they are the most likely to drop out.

I happen to think eliminating the ability of low SES kids to access college education in a very complex admission and financial aid environment is a bad thing. Wealth inequality is the highest it’s even been in the US and growing. Ask 1789 France what happens when you have a permanent underclass with no real social mobility and a let them eat cake elite class. Ask the Russians in 1918. It never ends well.

And it’s kid of gross to eliminate DEI for poor kid whose parents can’t help but keep the legacy and sports set asides for almost exclusively UMC kids (except football and some basketball).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In 2023, DEI is much less about race or national origin and more about removing barriers to college for low SES students. So colleges do special out reach and waive fees for FARMs and first Gen kids. They put them in special mentor groups because they are the most likely to drop out.

I happen to think eliminating the ability of low SES kids to access college education in a very complex admission and financial aid environment is a bad thing. Wealth inequality is the highest it’s even been in the US and growing. Ask 1789 France what happens when you have a permanent underclass with no real social mobility and a let them eat cake elite class. Ask the Russians in 1918. It never ends well.

And it’s kid of gross to eliminate DEI for poor kid whose parents can’t help but keep the legacy and sports set asides for almost exclusively UMC kids (except football and some basketball).

What about the smart middle class kids? Our kids are getting squeezed to death between legacies, sports recruits and first gen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In 2023, DEI is much less about race or national origin and more about removing barriers to college for low SES students. So colleges do special out reach and waive fees for FARMs and first Gen kids. They put them in special mentor groups because they are the most likely to drop out.

I happen to think eliminating the ability of low SES kids to access college education in a very complex admission and financial aid environment is a bad thing. Wealth inequality is the highest it’s even been in the US and growing. Ask 1789 France what happens when you have a permanent underclass with no real social mobility and a let them eat cake elite class. Ask the Russians in 1918. It never ends well.

And it’s kid of gross to eliminate DEI for poor kid whose parents can’t help but keep the legacy and sports set asides for almost exclusively UMC kids (except football and some basketball).

What about the smart middle class kids? Our kids are getting squeezed to death between legacies, sports recruits and first gen!

Plenty of “smart middle class kids” are first gen, URM, legacy or sports recruits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In 2023, DEI is much less about race or national origin and more about removing barriers to college for low SES students. So colleges do special out reach and waive fees for FARMs and first Gen kids. They put them in special mentor groups because they are the most likely to drop out.

I happen to think eliminating the ability of low SES kids to access college education in a very complex admission and financial aid environment is a bad thing. Wealth inequality is the highest it’s even been in the US and growing. Ask 1789 France what happens when you have a permanent underclass with no real social mobility and a let them eat cake elite class. Ask the Russians in 1918. It never ends well.

And it’s kid of gross to eliminate DEI for poor kid whose parents can’t help but keep the legacy and sports set asides for almost exclusively UMC kids (except football and some basketball).

What about the smart middle class kids? Our kids are getting squeezed to death between legacies, sports recruits and first gen!

Hyperbole much? Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Good, stop discriminating.