tbh most of these are pretty basic and reasonable.
Dos and don'ts of writing a diversity statement
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If you're statement is basically that diversity is good and we should all support diversity then I know you are some Fridge reader (or worse). You need SKIN IN RHE GAME.
Tell us how you self sacrificed to make room for a bicurious, non-binary PhD student with no empirical skills but a lot of "moxie" ... How you took sir under your wing (read: did all the work) and then wrote glowing letters to ensure ze placed well. Then found a good lawyer to pre-sue at 3rd year review.
THAT is what we are looking for
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I actually think some of this is helpful. Regardless of the fact that I dont like them, I will probably have to write one at some point and some insight into what people are looking for is helpful.
That said, many of the donts ate things I dont even understand. Diversity vs equality? What? And why does this person have to be so condescending? How about look for people making an honest effort instead of vilifying people who use the word minority and not the unheard of "minoritized?"
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I actually think some of this is helpful. Regardless of the fact that I dont like them, I will probably have to write one at some point and some insight into what people are looking for is helpful.
That said, many of the donts ate things I dont even understand. Diversity vs equality? What? And why does this person have to be so condescending? How about look for people making an honest effort instead of vilifying people who use the word minority and not the unheard of "minoritized?"I think she meant "diversity vs quality" but committed one of her many typos.
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Of *course* there's a trade off between diversity and quality. Statement 1: We need to put our thumbs (plus a bag of lead weights) on the scale to admit diverse students and hire candidates because they would not otherwise be competitive. Statement 2: Admitting and hiring these candidates involves no concessions on the ordinary criteria we would use in these decisions. Doublespeak.
I actually think some of this is helpful. Regardless of the fact that I dont like them, I will probably have to write one at some point and some insight into what people are looking for is helpful.
That said, many of the donts ate things I dont even understand. Diversity vs equality? What? And why does this person have to be so condescending? How about look for people making an honest effort instead of vilifying people who use the word minority and not the unheard of "minoritized?"I think she meant "diversity vs quality" but committed one of her many typos.
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I am an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm that fights for individual liberty. Like many, I think these diversity statement are unlawful and violate the First Amendment. If you have been rejected from a position and believe diversity statements may have played a role, please reach out to me to discuss further. My email is dortner@pacificlegal.org.
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I am an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm that fights for individual liberty. Like many, I think these diversity statement are unlawful and violate the First Amendment. If you have been rejected from a position and believe diversity statements may have played a role, please reach out to me to discuss further. My email is dortner@pacificlegal.org.
Good for you. I think you're going to have more luck finding out about this stuff from existing faculty than from job applicants, though. In the econ market, people apply to so many jobs that rejection is the default outcome at any given institution. It's only by being involved on the other side of the search that you'd know when a diversity statement might have made the difference.
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Of *course* there's a trade off between diversity and quality. Statement 1: We need to put our thumbs (plus a bag of lead weights) on the scale to admit diverse students and hire candidates because they would not otherwise be competitive. Statement 2: Admitting and hiring these candidates involves no concessions on the ordinary criteria we would use in these decisions. Doublespeak.
I actually think some of this is helpful. Regardless of the fact that I dont like them, I will probably have to write one at some point and some insight into what people are looking for is helpful.
That said, many of the donts ate things I dont even understand. Diversity vs equality? What? And why does this person have to be so condescending? How about look for people making an honest effort instead of vilifying people who use the word minority and not the unheard of "minoritized?"I think she meant "diversity vs quality" but committed one of her many typos.
disagree. minorities of high quality face barriers (racism/biases/etc.) that prevent them from advancing. low quality people get jobs because of connections. remove the barriers, level the playing field, and average quality goes up. the "quality v diversity trade-off" is a red herring.
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I am shocked that she keeps "Dr" in her twitter title. Odd that objectively successful academics seldom do that.
^ Please, please just take 1 second to talk to minorities to understand *why* they do that before you start judging it. The rudeness they experience that drives them to feel it's necessary to do that. You clearly haven't.
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Of *course* there's a trade off between diversity and quality. Statement 1: We need to put our thumbs (plus a bag of lead weights) on the scale to admit diverse students and hire candidates because they would not otherwise be competitive. Statement 2: Admitting and hiring these candidates involves no concessions on the ordinary criteria we would use in these decisions. Doublespeak.
I actually think some of this is helpful. Regardless of the fact that I dont like them, I will probably have to write one at some point and some insight into what people are looking for is helpful.
That said, many of the donts ate things I dont even understand. Diversity vs equality? What? And why does this person have to be so condescending? How about look for people making an honest effort instead of vilifying people who use the word minority and not the unheard of "minoritized?"I think she meant "diversity vs quality" but committed one of her many typos.
disagree. minorities of high quality face barriers (racism/biases/etc.) that prevent them from advancing. low quality people get jobs because of connections. remove the barriers, level the playing field, and average quality goes up. the "quality v diversity trade-off" is a red herring.
When you say "minorities of high quality face barriers" you must be talking about Asian candiditates. When you say "low quality people get jobs" you must be talking about diversity hires.
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Of *course* there's a trade off between diversity and quality. Statement 1: We need to put our thumbs (plus a bag of lead weights) on the scale to admit diverse students and hire candidates because they would not otherwise be competitive. Statement 2: Admitting and hiring these candidates involves no concessions on the ordinary criteria we would use in these decisions. Doublespeak.
I actually think some of this is helpful. Regardless of the fact that I dont like them, I will probably have to write one at some point and some insight into what people are looking for is helpful.
That said, many of the donts ate things I dont even understand. Diversity vs equality? What? And why does this person have to be so condescending? How about look for people making an honest effort instead of vilifying people who use the word minority and not the unheard of "minoritized?"I think she meant "diversity vs quality" but committed one of her many typos.
disagree. minorities of high quality face barriers (racism/biases/etc.) that prevent them from advancing. low quality people get jobs because of connections. remove the barriers, level the playing field, and average quality goes up. the "quality v diversity trade-off" is a red herring.
Please use the word "minoritized". Thank you.
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I am an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm that fights for individual liberty. Like many, I think these diversity statement are unlawful and violate the First Amendment. If you have been rejected from a position and believe diversity statements may have played a role, please reach out to me to discuss further. My email is dortner@pacificlegal.org.
UC's are using diversity statements as cover to violate Proposition 209 in faculty hiring. Administrators are being careful to not leave a paper trail that a whistleblower could leak, and so any hard evidence of this would probably require subpoena power and require depositions of administrators (and complicit state legislatures directly asking UC to violate Prop 209) at the college, campus, and university (i.e, UCOP) levels.