MIT will no longer require diversity statements for hiring faculty

[Anonymous]

A step in the right direction! I'm still amazed that this essentially Stalinist tactic has made so much headway in supposedly modern America.

Can you imagine the outcry we'd hear if universities required loyalty oaths to the US Constitution?

Instead we get pledges to support "diversity," by which no one actually means diversity. How far do you think someone would get in the hiring process if they said they were excited to increase the school's diversity by bringing in more Mormon scholars? More adjuncts from Appalachia? More children of Asian immigrants?

Good riddance - hopefully many more schools will follow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/mit-diversity-statements-faculty-hiring.html

[Anonymous]

Good riddance! Attacking merit is fundamentally wrong.

[Anonymous]

A lot of liberals and moderates are against this form of compelled speech and are speaking out forcefully.

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

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).

[Anonymous]

Is it 2040 yet?

[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!

Critical thinking exercise: You and your liberal family and friends hold similar opinions to other liberal people, but you say you consider not supporting "liberals" (like yourself and your family and friends). You are casting too wide a net to think all liberals hold the same views as people to the far left of the liberal spectrum, such that it made you not want to support "liberals," writ large, at all.

The full spectrum of opinions is needed for such a diverse society to find balance. Sometimes, in democracy, people set up a platform for a particular issue to draw attention to something that they believed was being ignored -- like the environmental platform that started in the 70s, that certainly had its extremists, but the overall message was necessary.

[Anonymous]

Thank the Lord Jesus Christ.

[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!

Critical thinking exercise: You and your liberal family and friends hold similar opinions to other liberal people, but you say you consider not supporting "liberals" (like yourself and your family and friends). You are casting too wide a net to think all liberals hold the same views as people to the far left of the liberal spectrum, such that it made you not want to support "liberals," writ large, at all.

The full spectrum of opinions is needed for such a diverse society to find balance. Sometimes, in democracy, people set up a platform for a particular issue to draw attention to something that they believed was being ignored -- like the environmental platform that started in the 70s, that certainly had its extremists, but the overall message was necessary.

Also stop with being so asinine. Anyone can understand what I mean.

[Anonymous]

The pendulum can’t swing in the right direction fast enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A step in the right direction! I'm still amazed that this essentially Stalinist tactic has made so much headway in supposedly modern America.

Can you imagine the outcry we'd hear if universities required loyalty oaths to the US Constitution?

Instead we get pledges to support "diversity," by which no one actually means diversity. How far do you think someone would get in the hiring process if they said they were excited to increase the school's diversity by bringing in more Mormon scholars? More adjuncts from Appalachia? More children of Asian immigrants?

Good riddance - hopefully many more schools will follow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/mit-diversity-statements-faculty-hiring.html

I'm so glad MIT is here to help you battle the imaginary demons hiding under your bed.

[Anonymous]

Congrats OP. I'm sure that was the only thing preventing you from getting that MIT professorship!

[Anonymous]

The mediocre white boys are breaking out the champagne!

[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!

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

[Anonymous]

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

Boo, racist.