(02-24-2018 08:20 AM)soccerguy315 Wrote: Actually, you are wrong. "Diversity hire" was mentioned in post #49, and I did not post in the thread until post #54.
Thank you for acknowledging that it is a "dirty term" and "massagonist" (sic) though. Now you can feel free to direct your comments to where it actually came from, which is not from me.
Please feel free to apologize for accusing me of having a "creepy agenda" and accusing me of being the first one to use the term "diversity hire". I do not owe anyone an apology for quoting their own words.
Quote:I'll be honest ... this diversity push has consumed higher education, IMO. It was in the recent athletics survey, for goodness sakes. We all knew that this was coming (I'll duck ... fire away).
Biographically, this has all of the appearances of being a diversity hire.
All I did is read what other people wrote and respond to it. Maybe you have certain posters blocked, I don't know.
After I used the terms higher education diversity push, and a biographical appearance of a diversity hire in post #49, I supported my opinion in post #99.
In post #99, among other links, I linked the W&M staff's request for diversity in the search process, the Rector's comments about diversity in the hire, and the incoming President's comments about the virtues of diversity.
In post #99, among other links, I linked an article about diversity hiring in which that specific term was used.
In post #99, among other links, I linked a presentation before the EEOC in which objection was taken to current diversity hiring practices, and the diversity push.
In post #100, the moderator indicated that folks wouldn't read the links. He was right. Obviously, you haven't read the links that I attached, and continue to fan the flames on this issue.
Just because someone holds a different view point, that doesn't make them, or their viewpoint, "dirty".
If you want to continue this, I'm game.
Regardless, for the third time, I support the hire; I have never said otherwise, nor do I think otherwise, nor do I insinuate otherwise. Does that cover it?
:-)