In this Op-Ed we argue that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs are unethical and detract from a university's principal mission. We propose an alternative framework: Merit, Fairness, and Equality (MFE).
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Dorian Schuyler Abbot
@DorianAbbot
My name is Dorian Schuyler Abbot. I am a professor at the University of Chicago.
Joined October 2020
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"It is thus this conjunction of French and American trends that has led to the current confusion between the academic and the political arenas: a confusion which paved the way for wokism."
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"This might entail reforms such as (1) curbing the influence of teachers’ unions in inhibiting educational innovations, (2) adequately funding public education, and (3) assisting societal reforms to reverse dysfunctional family patterns that disadvantage minority students."
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"My own guess—and hope—is that the lower echelons of the public educational system, from kindergarten through high school, will rise to the occasion and take the drastic steps needed to improve the education of all public-school students."
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"I’m going to cut to the chase and tell you the 7 solutions these public intellectuals proposed at the conference to address the problems with academic freedom." -
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"In a short time, DEI imperatives have spawned a growing bureaucracy that holds enormous power within universities. They now take part in dictating things like hiring, promotion, tenure, and research funding."
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"As federal funds helped to boost STEM after WWII and the Sputnik launch, federal funds are now being used to bury STEM."
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Politics works better when it's like sports than when it's like religion.
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FIRE letter on the Hamline University debacle.
To sign this open letter, email your first and last name, academic title, and college/university to facultyoutreach@thefire.org.
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Associate vice president for "inclusive excellence" declares including an excellent Islamic painting of Muhammad in a class on Islamic art "Islamophobic" and "unacceptable." Another normal day in higher education!
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"Celebrated nuclear waste expert and non-binary fashion maven Sam Brinton and cryptocoin billionaire and patron of right-minded politicians Sam Bankman-Fried will keynote a new lecture series on ethics, virtue, and social justice."
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"Imagine a world in which winning an argument is as simple as silencing your opponents, and silencing your opponents is as simple as calling them dirty names... All this and more defines contemporary Progressive ideology." -
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"Who are they to question the morals and motives of Pfizer? I bet the person turning to Google with some questions even talks with an accent, drives a pickup truck, and doesn’t have the good sense to live in a coastal metropolitan area. The nerve!"
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"Fifty years ago, history departments did history and English departments did English; today, both disciplines muddle their missions by indulging in half-baked progressive politics."
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Three excellent essays by British scholars: "Academic Corporatism - A More Pervasive form of Tyranny," "Taking the Illiberal Politics out of University Teaching," and "Truth Under Attack in the Universities."
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Here is an excellent summary of the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference cli.stanford.edu/events/confere by . Highly recommended!
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"Color-blindness is the best principle with which to govern a multiracial democracy. It is the best way to lower the temperature of racial conflict in the long run. We abandon color-blindness at our own peril."
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"James Webb worked to integrate NASA, bringing in Black engineers and scientists. After George Wallace tried to block such recruitment, Mr. Webb threatened to pull top scientists and executives out of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville."
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Proposal: a special tax on so-called "anti-racism" trainings due to negative externalities on society.
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“I’ll never forget my college advisor telling me that, after all my hard work, my grades and test scores and activities and everything else, I should be accepted at my top choice of school—if only I weren’t Asian.” -Judge Ho
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"Fiedler is not the first editor of a scientific journal to lose his job for flouting progressive pieties. "In some ways, there’s no news here," Jussim said. "This is now normal in academia.""
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"Our winner is not a legal scholar and she does not appear to have had any noteworthy accomplishments as a practicing attorney. Instead, she is the functionary for the school’s “Faculty/Staff Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee.”
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"We’ve gone from the campus as the only place where discussion must have no limits, to the campus as the only place where free discussion isn’t possible."
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Professors/students/alumni: Have the faculty finally had enough? Stanford, Chicago, Texas, Princeton and Wharton profs call for the restoration of academic freedom and merit. Add your name to their growing numbers: forms.gle/QUkzS5BD7Nco7q Enough DIE corruption.
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"I will compare my past and present experiences to illustrate the following parallels between the USSR and the US today: (i) fear and self-censorship (ii) omnipresence of ideology (iii) intolerance of dissenting opinions (iv) social engineering."
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"The Mission and Vision Statements trample on the fundamental role of the university: to facilitate the creation, curation, and dissemination of knowledge. Under no circumstances can ideological activism be the primary purpose of a public university."
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Intrepid Chicago journalist Matt Rosenberg provides a richly sourced, data-intensive account of the wreckage in my home town that has been wrought by "progressive" criminal justice and education policies. Lovers of the Windy City can only read it and weep:
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"The conformists are rewarded, and the heterodox are blacklisted, attacked, and punished. If nothing is done to course-correct, the entirety of America’s higher education will look like the walking dystopia of a university that I attend."
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Fathers: do your duty! Protect and provide for your children and their mother. It's the most important thing you can do to improve society and yourself.
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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained." -Mahatma Gandhi
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“The Leftists Who Cried Exclusion” argues that Stanford’s leftist faculty members contradict themselves on academic freedom.
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"The Journal for Marxist-Leninist Natural Sciences has the following slogans: `We stand for Party in Mathematics. We stand for the purity of Marxist-Leninist theory in surgery.' The situation seems to be very similar in Germany." -Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
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"Totalitarian control of opinion extends, however, also to subjects which at first seem to have no political significance..."
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posted a short piece I wrote on why free speech codes are not enough to ensure a culture of respectful disagreement & dialogue on campus of of it.
"Enforcing the First Amendment on Campus Won't, by Itself, Address the Problem of Academic Freedom"
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"I learned pretty quickly that most of what I was teaching wasn’t really “Intro to Biology”. The most polite description I can muster for it is probably something more along the lines of “Remedial Life Skills for the Cognitively and Emotionally Stunted”."
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"I need to emphasize that this is not hypothetical. The censorious, fearful climate is already affecting the content of what we teach."
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Academic Freedom Conference at Stanford prompts spirited debate over how best to fix higher education
One side believes there’s no saving higher education from within. The other thinks it can be salvaged.
thecollegefix.com/academic-freed
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"There is no indigenous astronomy. There is no Lebanese Jewish astronomy. There is just astronomy."
at Stanford Academic Freedom Conference
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Glenn Loury on Ibram X Kendi 😂
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