University of California and DEI

Hat tip Campus Reform

"You may also want to review and ask candidates to review the helpful video by Vice Chancellor Doug Haynes summarizing Guidelines for Writing Diversity Statements for Faculty Applicants. A helpful example of Faculty Contributions to Inclusive Excellence can be viewed here." 

-From UC Irvine rubric

The University of California is determined to get around the recent US Supreme Court ruling striking down race-based affirmative action in admissions. California also has similar laws against race-based admissions and hiring practices in state colleges and universities.

The new institution of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is alive and growing in the state's universities. Indeed, it has become a giant industry all over the country. Despite its lofty name, it actually engages in dividing people according to race, in effect discriminating not only against whites but Jews and Asians as well. Jews because DEI considers them merely as part of the "privileged" white class (to say nothing of pro-Palestinian solidarity) and Asians due to their high percentage among students-at least in the UC system.

I am cross-posting the below article from Campus Reform which illustrates how the UC system is circumventing the laws prohibiting affirmative action in hiring and admissions. 

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23700

Did you see the grading rubrics used by UC Santa Cruz ("America's Wackiest University"), UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine to access an applicant's commitment to diversity? Pretty Orwellian, isn't it? It actually underlines what critics of academia bemoan as the lack of diversity when it comes to thought in our universities.

Changing standards to achieve diversity is only achieving cosmetic results. We all want to see more black and Hispanic students studying and succeeding in college. To get there, changes and improvements need to be accomplished at the secondary education level-as well as societal changes, the drug and gang problems, for example. Take the Los Angeles Unified School District (of which I am a product): For years, the district has suffered from low graduation rates. Just what are the colleges supposed to do to address that?

As a famous scientist once observed, we have created a monster.