If by "diversity," however, you mean racial quotas, for which a perfectly good word has been co-opted as a euphemism, then, yes, I have a problem with that.
Boy does that sentence take us down some seriously slippery slopes.
I don't know anyone who favors racial quotas. But who knows what is meant by the term, it's so politicized.
I favor four arguments in all this. The first is that when all other criteria are equal the job, position, admission, whatever, goes to affirmative action criteria. Second, the more diversity at every level of institutional activity, the better (no doubt, someone will point out some glaring exception to that huge generalization). Three, aggressive recruiting activities to increase the numbers in admission, job application, pools. Fourth, aggressive activities to improve the feeder social locations (urban ghetto public schools (and, for that matter, some rural schools as well) for colleges; parallel for jobs.
So, where do you come down in all this? |
