Monday, April 09, 2018

Loyalty Oaths

In California it used to be against education code to be a teacher and a communist.  Now it's OK to be a communist.

The can't refuse to hire you if you're a communist but you'd better support diversity, at least at UC San Diego:
As an addition to the "I probably couldn't get a job as an academic these days" file comes this link (via @roddreher) to a University of California San Diego document requiring a written statement from faculty applicants:
The Contributions to Diversity Statement should describe your past efforts, as well as future plans to advance diversity, equity and inclusion. It should also demonstrate an understanding of the barriers facing women and underrepresented minorities and of UC San Diego’s mission to meet the educational needs of our diverse student population...
You can't make such silliness up. Remember when loyalty oaths were a bad thing?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Recently for the professor evaluations the students filled out they asked how the professor promoted these values of diversity and inclusion, which made little sense for my engineering classes. I guess they could use a disabled genderqueer minority engineer in their word problems for the homework

Mike Thiac said...

I guess they could use a disabled genderqueer minority engineer in their word problems for the homework

For the love of God, don't give the DPRK any ideas! :<)