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they're not hiring based on race, they're hiring based on the way they score a statement about one's commitment to, history with, and future plans for advancing
by efficax 4y ago
they're not hiring based on race, they're hiring based on the way they score a statement about one's commitment to, history with, and future plans for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the university setting. you can be black and have a terrible dei statement. it just happens that minorities are more likely to have had involvement with these issues for most of their academic lives.
- fallingknife 4y agoIf the scoring on the DEI statement is correlated to race of the applicant, and I would bet every dollar I have that it is, then it is considered de facto racial discrimination by law. Google "disparate impact." Same issue as Harvard giving low "personality scores" to the Asian applicants. You can't get around anti-discrimination laws that easily.