{"id":10054,"date":"2015-10-08T00:18:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T07:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2015-10-08T00:18:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T07:18:23","slug":"diversity-is-now-the-be-all-end-all-of-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/10\/08\/diversity-is-now-the-be-all-end-all-of-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Is Now The Be All End All of Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"

     What is important to a college in finding a professor?\u00a0 For the humanities and qualitative social “sciences,” the only thing that matters to Cornell is “diversity<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

     The only criteria, aside from having a Ph.D., they listed was a desire to consider “applications from members of underrepresented groups, those who have faced economic hardship, are first-generation college graduates, or work on topics related to these issues.”<\/p>\n

     And this isn’t just the standard “we welcome divers candidates<\/a>” trope:<\/p>\n

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“Scott MacDonald, Cornell’s senior associate dean of arts and humanities, describes the position as a ‘target of opportunity’ appointment. Asked if it might be an attempt to hire an ethnically or socioeconomically diverse faculty member, he says, ‘there’s a background need in the college, which is part of the explanation.'”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     Of course Cornell maintains at least some modicum<\/a> of standards when it comes to the sciences or the quantitative pseudo\/social-sciences, though the hiring in the sciences is already heavily biased<\/a> against un-diverse<\/em> men.<\/p>\n

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     Because the point of academia is now superficial, at best.<\/p>\n

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