Comments on: More about University of California diversity oaths

By: mike

mike — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:35:39 +0000

It is a political test, pure and simple, of your dedication to advancing “social justice.” Whatever social justice means, it is not “justice,” or there would be no need for the first word in the phrase.

By: John Fembup

John Fembup — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:00:40 +0000

Almost 30 years ago I was VP of underwriting for a major national insurance company. At that time, the company had embarked on a plan to hire more management-track minority individuals who were graduating from top colleges and universities. I mean, top. Hey, good on us, right? Yes, it was a smart thing to do. .

One of the company’s outreach efforts was to bring candidates – at our expense – to our head office for a day of information-sharing. As a VP, I usually attended the breakfast meeting on the first day, then met candidates expressing an interest in underwriting (yeah, I know) and introduced them to members of my staff for short 1-1 meetings during the rest of the day.

An indelible memory of those times was the breakfast meetings, during which one of our earnest HR folks would invariably stress the company’s commitment to diversity. To an audience of 100% black and Hispanic candidates.

I thought that odd, even a bit embarrassing. The chief of Marketing (and my best friend in the company) agreed. He was a black man. He and I both tried each year to persuade HR this use of the term “diversity” was not only irrelevant to this group of talented individuals, but condescending as well. HR would not be moved.

By: Canvasback

Canvasback — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:22:28 +0000

“What if you embark on research that bears on questions of equity and inclusion but it reaches findings that do not advance the cause?”
I’ve never heard a clear description of this cause, in spite of the decades of spending, hiring, and subjective decisions. These rules should be rubbished for vagueness or quantified. Letting this b.s. free-float just encourages corruption of thinking and institutions.
I know transparency is antithetical to educrats. But they ask us to take it on faith that their diversity business is worth supporting.