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by Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/06/2020 - 11:56
The six-page document analyzes the taxpayer-funded institution’s new focus on hiring job candidates based on “knowledge,
past contributions, and/or future plans for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.” If candidates didn’t meet UC-Berkeley’s
standards in this area, they weren’t hired.
The 2018-2019 summary report for the “Initiative to Advance Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Life Sciences” was written
by two science professors, Mary Wildermuth and Rebecca Heald, who is also regional associate dean. They are co-chairs for the Life
Sciences Initiative Committee.
Daniel Ortner, an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, told two academic blogs that he is “looking to challenge the University
of California Policy.”
He wants anyone who was required to submit a mandatory diversity statement and not hired to contact him.
The policy has “several serious constitutional problems,” Ortner told The College Fix in an email.
He started looking into it when “[s]ome concerned UC professors” contacted him: “[T]he more I’ve looked into it the worse
UC’s actions appear.”
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When applicants are required to submit a diversity statement on their own experience, university reviewers would likely be able to
tell the applicants’ race and gender, “allowing those factors to be taken into account,” Ortner said.
That is “contrary to California Proposition 209,” the 23-year-old ballot initiative that amended the state constitution, “and
potentially the Equal Protection Clause” of the U.S. Constitution.
The Fix emailed and called Heald multiple times asking what hiring officials were looking for in diversity statements and what they
meant by “past contributions” to diversity. She did not respond. Wildermuth did not respond to emails, and her office phone was
disconnected.
Some departments have “met resistance by a small number of senior faculty members” to the initiative, Heald and Wildermuth noted.
They did not list any names of such senior faculty members or respond to The Fix when asked to identify them.
“A Life Sciences Initiative (LSI) Committee was formed early in the fall of 2018 to implement the initiative and serve as the search
committee for our joint open-field faculty recruitment,” the document states.
The committee met 19 times over the school year and was made up of 22 faculty and staff members from all departments. It
discussed and implemented four interventions: building a critical mass, strengthening applicant pools, improving candidate
evaluation processes, and institutional change.
Heald and Wildermuth included tables that show the percentage of each ethnicity and gender represented in the three hiring stages,
from the full applicant pool to the intermediate “Longlist” and the final “Shortlist.”
University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne, whose blog often criticizes perceived attacks on academic freedom, shared his
analysis of both tables.
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In one of them, the “cluster search” across Life Sciences departments, Coyne observed that “the proportion of minorities increased”
on both the long and short lists, except for Asian and Native Americans:
White males, who are supposed to be eliminated by this kind of search, were also significantly whittled away. In contrast,
Hispanics and African Americans were considerably enriched, with the proportions on the final shortlist (interviewees)
enriched by 4.5-fold and 3.25-fold respectively.
The cluster search first reviewed candidates for five full-time equivalent positions “based solely on contributions to diversity, equity
and inclusion,” removing the names to reduce “unconscious bias in the evaluation processes.” Less than a quarter of nearly 900
applicants who met basic qualifications made it past this first review.
The cluster table showed whites were the narrow majority of the applicant pool but less than 14 percent of the short list.
Men plummeted from an even larger majority of the applicant pool to a little over a third of the short list.
The only minorities to not substantially improve by the short list were Native Americans, of whom only three applied, and Asians,
who fell slightly between long and short lists. Hispanics represented an even larger majority of the short list than whites had in the
full applicant pool.
Of eight department-specific searches, only the Environmental Science, Policy and Management department went through a similar
process in hiring as the pan-department cluster search.
The ESPM demographics table shows every minority represented on the short list. Whites were nearly three in five applicants in the
pool as well as a majority of the long list, but none made the short list. Men also dropped to a minority on the short list.
To “strengthen” applicant pools, participating departments specifically mentioned commitments to diversity in their ads for
candidates and encouraged specific potential candidates to apply. Finalists were required to meet with department equity
advisors “and/or with a student panel” in on-campus interviews, in another change. Among “institutional changes,” additional
funding has been set aside for incoming faculty “to support their DE&I efforts.”
By imposing “a cutoff for diversity from the outset,” the hiring practices showed that diversity was “actually the most important
criterion for a search to proceed further,” the University of Chicago’s Coyne wrote on this blog. “No matter how good your
scholarship, if you didn’t pass the diversity cutoff … you were toast.”
Philosopher Brian Leiter, a colleague of Coyne’s at the University of Chicago, also promoted lawyer Ortner’s search for rejected UC-
Berkeley candidates to challenge the policy in court.
Leiter compared the mandatory diversity statements to “McCarthy-era loyalty oaths” andsaid “not just any means are acceptable for
promoting worthy ends.” For example, an explicit ban on hiring whites would also be a “diversity-promoting hiring practice.”
Another problem is that “research interests are being scrutinized,” meaning that research pertaining to diversity will automatically
get a better score. “[I]t will be difficult for a professor expressing more conservative economic or social policies to be hired,” he said.
“Mandated diversity statements impose ideological conformity on the faculty,” Ortner wrote in a Daily Caller essay.
They weed out prospective hires who do not share “the university’s orthodoxy surrounding diversity and inclusion,”
even if they treat “all students fairly.”
Coyne agrees with Ortner that the professed “blind” evaluation of job candidates likely did not apply to minority candidates, because
their identities “would have been clear, I suspect, from the diversity statements alone.”
This initiative is “chilling” as a “specific form of social engineering” that privileges race and sex over other forms of diversity, such as
class and political viewpoint, the biologist said. It goes far beyond affirmative action, which he supports, and into the realm of
“ideology”:
By hiring large numbers of deans and administrators whose job is to promote initiatives like the above, colleges like Berkeley
have guaranteed that this kind of process will only get more onerous and more invidious.
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JoeTurner 9 hours ago (Edited)
If you are white you have no choice but to find ways to boycott diversity everywhere whenever possible. Do not hire non
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whites, do not patronize ethnic restaurants, do not vacation in Latin America, do not attend a Church that has more than
2% non white attendees etc etc
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It also seemingly is a good ice breaker and sets the mood for the day perfectly.
For examples -"good morning you Spook" to my Black clerk Tyrell, or -"how's the sweatshop going you Coolie?" to
the Janitor Adrian.
My secretary Sherry loves the way I greet her in the morning -"hey sugar tits what you making me for lunch
today?"
Keeping the staff low skirts government laws so If they don't like it they can get the fuck out.
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White Is Right
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Its all about your merits, dont give a shit about anything else. You could be a transexual albino with mixed african
and mexican genes, and if you have the skills, Ill hire you.
Universities are just little fiefdoms that can do whatever they want and charge whatever they want. If you dont like
one, you can always find another. If you dont like US, you can go study in Ireland or Belgium if you want to.
Berkeley was ALWAYS like this in some way. Now its 'diversity'. Back in the 80's it was LSD tea and group orgies with
the profs.
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To YSM Faculty,
In an effort to reap the many benefits that flow from a diverse scientific workforce, the NIH encourages institutions to
diversify their student and faculty populations to enhance the participation of individuals from underrepresented groups.
We wanted to make sure you are aware that the NIH recently updated its guidance on diversity.
In addition to individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and individuals with disabilities, the definition of
individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, which had been quite limited, has been expanded to those who meet two or
more of the following criteria:
Question is, how does one specify one is Homeless on the job application? Staple a photo of a tent by the roadside as
"home address"?
And what, precisely, ARE the many benefits that flow from a diverse scientific workforce, anyway? Has anyone made a
handy list of the enormous advances in science contributed by a homeless crackhead who lost a forearm to gangrene?
And how does including these types of people into Yale's workforce contribute to Yale's reputation for excellence? Or are
homeless one-armed crackheads cooking their shit in the lab now the norm for prestigious ivy league universities?
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commiebastid 9 h
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commiebastid 9 hours ago
Teachings are determined by financial contributions
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Better to choose a particular student who deserves it---namely hard worker, conservative, etc. One with big tits and a nice
slim figure is esp deserving imo.
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Every one was an affirmative action student who was admitted in place of a more qualified non-diverse student.
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Skateboarder 9 hours ago
Loki is very right. Donating to your alma mater now in 2020... you might as well just pick out a couple of random
Mexicans or the purplest/greenest/pinkest hair-colored commies off the street and just give em that money in
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I wonder how soon I'd be hauled before the Feds for discrimination, since I doubt my take on traditional American values
bears no resemblance to their “future plans for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
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If you are so threatened by words... maybe you cannot defend your position.
If you are too sensitive to discuss uncomfortable topics... you do not belong in University. Period.
Universities are educational facilities. They are not mental health providers. Come here to learn and open your mind ... not
close it.
Of course some of us are afraid to voice these truths for fear of loss of tenure.
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Protected classes aren't going away. I just think everyone should be included, so that no discrimination is allowed.
Give white and Asian males a protected class status too.
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We was kangz!
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I want the one who got 1600 on his SATs and 98% on his MCATs, speaks English, and has a good bedside manner.
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That movie had more hidden meanings in it than a Mason's black book.
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The civil rights legislation of the past seventy years has not promoted a color blind society but has produced a most vicious
racist one. It is time for all such legislation to be struck down. It has failed to produce the desired results. It is time to act
to remove this abhorrent political culture.
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Diversity is a force feed acceptance policy which completely disregard the old model of mutual respects.
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It was hard enough getting into my college with all my "white privilege" baggage.
Glad when I got out I chose an employer who valued merit and achievement instead of skin color and/or gender.
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