UT Austin lays off DEI employees

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how the people so against DEI don’t seem to have an elementary understanding of the concepts.

Funny that these departments are so very important, according to you, yet nobody knows what they do. You’ve highlighted the problem. What value do they add?

They bring in high priced speakers and auditors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good.

No, this is bad. We need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our educational institutions.

But you don't need a DEI department for that. Just admit a diverse body of students.

Do you understand that inclusion is different from diversity? Just admitting diverse students does not mean they will enroll or feel welcome.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good.

No, this is bad. We need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our educational institutions.

I do not know what “equity” means in this context. To me, equity refers to things like the stock market.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good.

No, this is bad. We need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our educational institutions.

I do not know what “equity” means in this context. To me, equity refers to things like the stock market.

Maybe DEI programs could have helped you understand

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good.

No, this is bad. We need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our educational institutions.

But you don't need a DEI department for that. Just admit a diverse body of students.

Do you understand that inclusion is different from diversity? Just admitting diverse students does not mean they will enroll or feel welcome.

So, they are a glorified welcome wagon?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good.

No, this is bad. We need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our educational institutions.

Let it happen organically. Enough with the social engineering perpetuating racial division.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone taking UT off the list? https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4570975-ut-austin-lays-off-employees-to-comply-with-texas-dei-ban/

Moving it up the list. Thanks, OP.

Why would you move it up the list? Are you a racist piece of excrement? A white supremecist?

No I just think DEI grifters drive up the cost of college and contribute zero educational content.

I’m not white and I agree. I’m not sorry to see this go, and I hope other public institutions follow suit.

Agree. I admired some of the initial goals behind DEI but in reality it became a sinecure operation, creating highly paid roles that did very little good. And at many schools the DEI admins were given too much influence over both hiring of faculty and content of courses that was decidedly not in the spirit of free speech and intellectual engagement. It quickly became ideological and dogmatic.

Higher edu, especially in the humanities and social sciences, is in a pretty bad place at the moment and filled with too much pseudo-intellectual claptrap masquerading as research and hiding behind the DEI as their protection and hopefully we're rightening the ship to a more balanced position.

+1

The behind the scenes is truly awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you stupid or are you dumb? The purpose of the DEI is not to create diversity through admissions, but to support students who attend the college and the college as a whole in making it a more tolerable place for everyone, not just white people and their allies who actively mistreat and disrespect minorities is public and in private, for example this board.

People tend to get along pretty well, then the DEI hacks show up & justify their jobs by telling everybody why they should be angry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you stupid or are you dumb? The purpose of the DEI is not to create diversity through admissions, but to support students who attend the college and the college as a whole in making it a more tolerable place for everyone, not just white people and their allies who actively mistreat and disrespect minorities is public and in private, for example this board.

People tend to get along pretty well, then the DEI hacks show up & justify their jobs by telling everybody why they should be angry.

They sow division like PP by pitting groups against each other. Us vs Them. Good riddance.

[Anonymous]

I work at a very diverse org that recently (like 2 years ago) started a DEI program. They hired 3 people. I just don't see the value add. I love diversity and I do think it brings a richness to our office and our thought process. Some things I didn't disagree with:
-they looked at all of my most recent candidates, decided what race they are and then asked why I didn't hire X? I only have one white male on my entire team (and he's a veteran), the rest are all women and minorities women/ men. I'm sorry that my races don't match perfectly with the US percentages of races in population (ie, I have more blacks present in my office than the US percentage, but less Asians).
-They wanted us to not have our cameras on when interviewing so that we could be race blind. In turn, we felt like our interviews were not good and were more impersonal. It turned some candidates off.
-they want us to hire the minority candidate over all else. Sorry, but I want to hire the best qualified. All candidates aren't the same! We work in a technical area and need certain skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you stupid or are you dumb? The purpose of the DEI is not to create diversity through admissions, but to support students who attend the college and the college as a whole in making it a more tolerable place for everyone, not just white people and their allies who actively mistreat and disrespect minorities is public and in private, for example this board.

People tend to get along pretty well, then the DEI hacks show up & justify their jobs by telling everybody why they should be angry.

+1. I’m a minority who attended an elite college which, at the time, was majority white. This was before the explosion of DEI and I never felt unwelcome or mistreated because I wasn’t white. I actually resent the racial divisions DEI pushers are trying to force these days.

I totally get and support the establishment of offices to support first-generation college students - less “sophisticated” kids who don’t have the kind of parents who can guide them professionally, may not have the money or familial stability to go home at breaks, might not be able to afford interview clothes, things like that. But that should be totally divorced from the race of the students. My college has a program like this and I think they all should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone taking UT off the list? https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4570975-ut-austin-lays-off-employees-to-comply-with-texas-dei-ban/

Only an idiot would. Honestly though, all universities should cut their staff in half (most have 1 employee for every 2 students) and start paying taxes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good.

No, this is bad. We need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our educational institutions.

We need more focus on academics in our educational institutions. Otherwise our entire country will decline over the next few decades. You can already see it happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you stupid or are you dumb? The purpose of the DEI is not to create diversity through admissions, but to support students who attend the college and the college as a whole in making it a more tolerable place for everyone, not just white people and their allies who actively mistreat and disrespect minorities is public and in private, for example this board.

Like dividing and segregating students according to their race with things like "affinity" groups.

The world is better place when all strive to live, work and study together, not strive for separate but equal.

DEI is the antithesis of inclusion and the backlash is breath of fresh air.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good.

No, this is bad. We need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our educational institutions.

But you don't need a DEI department for that. Just admit a diverse body of students.

Do you understand that inclusion is different from diversity? Just admitting diverse students does not mean they will enroll or feel welcome.

As a racial, ethic, religious minority I can assure you that patronizing lectures about how the normal interactions I experience are actually racist microagressions don't make me feel included.