Search Results for: “Chief Diversity Officer”

Apr 13, 2023 · Ashlynn Warta

Does the Governance Commission Care About UNC Governance?

…and political diversity. One commenter suggested the use of gender and racial quotas as a method of improving board diversity. Another touted the importance of monitoring appointees’ “ideologies” (i.e., political…

Aug 23, 2024 · George Leef

A Medical Professor Learns That Dissent About Diversity Won’t Be Tolerated

…be questioned. At the top of that list is “diversity.” Because of the intellectual fragility of the diversity obsession, its defenders usually respond to criticism not with reason but with…

Dec 14, 2016 · W. Lee Hansen

New Diversity Initiatives Hurt the University of Wisconsin’s Campus Climate

…faculty, staff, and students. Again, it is hard to see how those changes will actually make UW a better learning environment. Supposedly, they enhance “diversity,” but the word “diversity” is…

Oct 2, 2020 · John Staddon

Diversity Über Alles: Science Is Threatened by Identity Politics

…diversity by its contribution to science: “Diversity results in better, more impactful and more innovative science.” If true, this would be a (weak) argument in its favor. Weak, because diversity…

Jan 17, 2022 · Ashlynn Warta

“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” to Be Embedded in NC Community Colleges

…hopefully reduce its financial burdens. However, with the establishment of the System Advisory Council Initiative on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the system has unfortunately decided to spend its resources…

Oct 16, 2024 · Mark Pulliam

The ABA Retreats From Its Diversity Mandate—or Does It?

…prohibited race-based preferences in admissions. The ABA’s heavy-handed “diversity” requirements for law schools—bordering on mandatory racial quotas—collide with the non-discrimination ruling in that case. In Students for Fair Admissions, the…

Jun 24, 2024 · Frederick M. Hess and Greg Fournier

Don’t Trust Colleges on Race-Based Admission

…that simple. Chief Justice Roberts’s decision left more than a little wiggle room. Roberts explained that “nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting an applicant’s discussion of how…

Oct 16, 2019 · Roger Clegg

Round One—Harvard Beats Asian Americans

…(vis-a-vis whites, 1-2-3) but is only pro-diversity. I believe she’s wrong in concluding that our law permits group discrimination as long as it doesn’t hurt disfavored groups “unduly.” The Civil…

Mar 17, 2023 · Gordon Bare

ROTC and the Ivies

…1967, a time when the officer corps was more racially diverse than the Penn student body. ROTC at Penn ran afoul of the politics of Vietnam, which peaked with the…

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