A Quantitative Study of DEI Statements in American University Job Listings
>Job applicants should not be required as a condition of employment to profess their loyalty to partisan statements or beliefs. Yet universities that solicit statements of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion from job applicants do precisely that.
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>We have discovered that 86 out of the 98 American universities we investigated required diversity statements for at least some job positions.
A commitment to nondiscrimination is not "partisan", or at least it wasn't until the president made it so.
University professors are also required to accommodate students under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If the president finds that wheelchairs are a communist plot, does that make the ADA partisan?
Hiring wasn't requiring candidates to make ADA statements, because it was the law.
And the command performances of DEI (the implementation) did get a little Kool Aid-y, even if diversity, equity, inclusion (the principles) are individually laudable.
But that's most things once they go through the HR washer.
> It's hard to parse how they were used any other way.
No, it's pretty easy. They were used to comply with the law.
> Both of the writers seem to believe that DEI statements, as implemented at Harvard, were mildly to wildly partisan.
Do you know what partisan means? It means favoring a particular political party. The attempt to cast perfectly normal rules against discrimination as a partisan project is one of the more evil ideas to come out of this administration, and that's saying something. Believe it or not, some people take actions because they have authentic beliefs. Not everything you don't like is performative, and not everything is calculated for it's political impact.
The current government, like you, sees everything through a partisan lens. They thinks that a lawyer who takes the case of a client who opposes the administration is necessarily partisan (and therefore worthy of punishment). More recently, the American Bar Association was singled out for alleged [1] partisanship for having the gall to support a plaintiff who thinks the government should pay its debts. Or how about the Associated Press [2] is a partisan organization now because of the name they choose to assign to the body of water south of the US.
The expansion of the world "partisan" to mean anyone who has any beliefs at all makes every person and every action a partisan. Which means that everyone is either with the administration or against it. That's exactly how they see the world, but that's not the world that I want to live in.
>Universities are, and should be, free to choose their own values and hiring practice.
If you are going to take in millions in Pell grants, student loans, and research funding, you are going to be beholden to politics. There are many that decline the funding to retain their independence.
> If you are going to take in millions in Pell grants, student loans, and research funding, you are going to be beholden to politics. There are many that decline the funding to retain their independence.
What does "beholden" mean? Does it mean the executive branch gets to install "viewpoint diversity" police and cancel whole departments, as they wanted to at Harvard? Do you think that level of government takeover benefits the university or the community?
I can't recall any car that didn't have any 'teething problems'. Some cars I've owned had multiple recalls. Of course it doesn't look good, but often it's to fix the probability of a problem occurring: it's not that the doors instantly swing open when touched by a drop of water.
I had another post in this thread with the same information, but here again is the current Waymo sensor suite...
>With 13 cameras, 4 lidar, 6 radar, and an array of external audio receivers (EARs), our new sensor suite is optimized for greater performance...it provides the Waymo Driver with overlapping fields of view, all around the vehicle, up to 500 meters away, day and night, and in a range of weather conditions.
>The research finds that, compared to human benchmarks over 56.7 million miles and regardless of who was at fault, the Waymo Driver had [list of better than human stats]
Well considering this sensor package...
>With 13 cameras, 4 lidar, 6 radar, and an array of external audio receivers (EARs), our new sensor suite is optimized for greater performance...it provides the Waymo Driver with overlapping fields of view, all around the vehicle, up to 500 meters away, day and night, and in a range of weather conditions.[0]
...I would hope it is considerably better than humans who are limited to a sensor suite of two cameras and two lower-case ears.
>Outside my hometown, Albuquerque, where the city ends and modular suburban homes climb the hill toward the Santa Fe National Forest, there’s a Tesla sales lot, filled with a fleet of the angular silver Nazi Wagons...
So the author fulfilled a version of Goodwin's Law, "as an article criticizing Tesla\Musk grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
>Job applicants should not be required as a condition of employment to profess their loyalty to partisan statements or beliefs. Yet universities that solicit statements of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion from job applicants do precisely that.
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>We have discovered that 86 out of the 98 American universities we investigated required diversity statements for at least some job positions.
https://www.nas.org/reports/ideological-insistence/full-repo...
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