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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did signing this statement actually mean anything? De facto? [/quote]

Usually in faculty hiring, when you are asked to submit a diversity statement, it’s basically an essay in which you talk about how you have encountered students who are diverse, how you think about diversity or n preparing your syllabi, and how your own work in research intersects with diversity issues. It’s not simply a paper that you sign.

the purpose in having someone write an essay is that it helps the committee to know that they have thought about these issues, and that they have a philosophy about diversity. The only people who really struggle with it are people who kind of refuse to see the diversity of their students.  I once worked with an older white man who loved to use football analogies in teacher my. all of his icebreakers in class were asking people to name their favorite teams etc. a lot of recent immigrants, some women, and a lot of neurodiverse people really are not interested in football, and so his teaching showed a sort  of  cluelessness to those issues. most people, however, are pretty aware of diversity and have thought about it and really don’t struggle to write these statements [/quote]

This.

They are used as a method to to gauge if a teacher/professor has thought about diversity and their teaching approach to a diverse student body. [/quote]

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