Comment by imgabe

6 days ago

> the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices among faculty, staff, and leadership.

> the University must adopt and implement merit-based admissions policies and cease all preferences based on race, color, national origin, or proxies thereof, throughout its undergraduate program, each graduate program individually, each of its professional schools, and other programs.

In what way is hiring faculty and and admitting students based on merit instead of their identity anti-education? Is your position that you get a better education from a professor who was hired because of their race instead of the quality of their scholarly work?

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Braxton1980  5 days ago

>In what way is hiring faculty and and admitting students based on merit instead of their identity anti-education?

It's not. Calling universities and professors the enemy is. The government taking away funding because you want international students to adhere to an ideology is wrong.

>is your position that you get a better education from a professor who was hired because of their race instead of the quality of their scholarly work?

How do you rank the quality of scholarly work?

  • imgabe  5 days ago

    You ask other scholars in the field to read it and give their opinion on it. It’s this thing called “peer review” that is kind of the basis of all modern academic inquiry.

    In the case of hiring, typically a committee of other professors in the department would evaluate candidates, not a bunch of DEI bureaucrats. They would read what the candidates have published and see if the arguments they make are sound, and look at things like # of citations that indicate how prominent the work is in the field.

    I don’t know if you’ve ever met any academics, but I promise you they have no problems forming opinions about the quality of work of other people in their field.