The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)
It&#x27;s unfortunately tough to have a discussion about this too. Any criticism of justice&#x2F;equity&#x2F;diversity&#x2F;inclusion (JEDI) bureaucracy gets strawmanned very quickly, and the critic labelled as simply a bad person. Example: the VP of the American Mathematical Society wrote a short piece (op ed?) in 2019 describing the requirement that new university faculty hires write <i>diversity statements</i>, and the scoring of that statement according to a rubric, as a &quot;political litmus test,&quot; and she got roasted for it. Folks called for her resignation, and said the AMS shouldn&#x27;t have published it. I was attending a JEDI workshop as a grad student to get a <i>diversity certificate</i> at the time, and the facilitator only reacted with disgust, and we never honestly discussed it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ams.org&#x2F;journals&#x2F;notices&#x2F;201911&#x2F;rnoti-p1778.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ams.org&#x2F;journals&#x2F;notices&#x2F;201911&#x2F;rnoti-p1778.pdf</a>