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Re: Trump Vivek and Musk 

By: ribit in GRITZ | Recommend this post (3)
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Re: Trump Vivek and Musk
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Sun, 29 Dec 24 11:31 PM 		Msg. 01894 of 02378

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Re: “Real engineering colleges whose focus is to be the best are excellent. They are particular about who gets allowed in as well. Mediocrity is not acceptable.” Think what you will, but the DEI program at M.I.T. is alive and well.

Somewhat to M.I.T.'s credit, the requirement for a Diversity Statement from every faculty candidate was eliminated this year - after M.I.T.’s president testified to Congress alongside her peers from Harvard and UPenn. You might remember that the other two consequently resigned their positions. Here's what the New York Times has to say about the Diversity Statement: "The practice of screening candidates for their diversity statements, sometimes before considering their academic qualifications, has been attacked as particularly corrosive in the sciences."

Rest assured that M.I.T.'s change was not actually something it WANTED to do. Moreover, M.I.T. has had DEI priorities and, therefore, a focus on something other than "to be the best" for some time. With a little luck and a lot of backpeddling, perhaps it will regain some of what it has lost.

And, yes, I've had conversations with M.I.T. graduates, along with Cal Tech. But they all graduated long ago, before all this DEI crap came into play.

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