‘The budget-strapped University of California squanders millions on mindless diversity programs’

But it makes everybody feel good!

“Maria Sobek, UC Santa Barbara’s associate vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and academic policy and a professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, provides a window into how UC Two thinks about its mission. If a faculty hiring committee selects only white male finalists for an opening, the dean will suggest ‘bringing in some women to look them over,’ Sobek says. These female candidates, she says, ‘may be borderline, but they are all qualified.’ And voilà! ‘It turns out [the hiring committees] really like the candidates and hire them, even if they may not have looked so good on paper.’ This process has ‘energized’ the faculty to hire a woman, says Sobek. She adds that diversity interventions get ‘more positive responses’ from humanities and social-sciences professors than from scientists.”

http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_2_multiculti-university.html

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