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Why Diversify?

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a gushing article this morning on the extraordinary lengths Rochester Institute of Technology has gone to in its effort to ?diversify its faculty,? such as beginning the recruiting effort years before a candidate receives his Ph.D.

The two best things about the article, so far, are a couple of comments to it. The best, by Roger Clegg, invites readers to

reread this article, asking yourself whether, if Rochester were doing all it?s doing in order to increase the number of white and overrepresented minorities on its faculty, there would be any question that it was engaging in illegal racial discrimination.... Legal considerations aside, by all means cast a wide net, but then ignore skin color and national origin and just hire the best qualified individuals.

The second best is by the most frequent contributor to DISCRIMINATIONS, me:

Left unreported is the question of exactly WHY RIT felt, and feels, the need to ?diversify? its faculty by hiring more blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Will they produce better scientists than the wrongly-colored faculty who would have been hired had the emphasis been limited to scholarly qualifications?

Full post as published by Discriminations on March 03, 2010 (boomark / email).