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It's quite telling that the MIT president was too scared to announce this despite only 1 in 20 faculty supporting DEI statements.
by steve_taylor 2y ago
It's quite telling that the MIT president was too scared to announce this despite only 1 in 20 faculty supporting DEI statements.
- karaterobot 2y agoJust want to note that, currently, this is the highest comment in the thread which makes any direct references to the article we're all nominally discussing, and it's about 100 comments down. Have an extra upvote.
- kristopolous 2y agoQuoting: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mit-scraps-diversity-statements-in-faculty-hiring-process-after-discovering-they-don-t-work/ar-BB1lRFgL https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mit-scraps-diversity-state... The decision was made by MIT president Sally Kornbluth, with support from the school’s provost and six academic deans, a spokesperson told National Review on Sunday afternoon. “My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to MIT, and to make sure they thrive once here,” Kornbluth said in a statement provided to NR. “We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.”
- TMWNN 2y agosteve_taylor's point is that had National Review not asked for a comment, MIT would never have formally announced this at all.
- kristopolous 2y agoDo they generally put out announcements on Sunday afternoon? They made sure to be accessible for this. That's probably already an exception. Campuses are usually a M-F 9-5 kind of place. So I think that's pure speculation. There wasn't that much time, they're usually closed on the weekend and there's no expectation for them to swiftly contact the media for every single change in policy.