Mandatory DEI statements are akin to swearing fealty to a religious order and have no place in an academic institution (unless that institution is specifically religious). As a former academic, I loathe what academia has become and can't imagine having to swear an oath of fealty that leads to researching only topics that affirm the orthodoxy of the woke.
Mandatory DEI statements are akin to swearing fealty to a religious order and have no place in an academic institution (unless that institution is specifically religious). As a former academic, I loathe what academia has become and can't imagine having to swear an oath of fealty that leads to researching only topics that affirm the orthodoxy of the woke.
About damn time.
Mandatory DEI statements are akin to swearing fealty to a religious order and have no place in an academic institution (unless that institution is specifically religious). As a former academic, I loathe what academia has become and can't imagine having to swear an oath of fealty that leads to researching only topics that affirm the orthodoxy of the woke.
Exactly. You might as well be asking a candidate to write a faith statement to Jesus or Mohammed. But it’s even more like a cult. The Cult of DEI.
This is almost exactly what I was going to write. Thank you for saving me the digital ink!