The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)
It's unfortunately tough to have a discussion about this too. Any criticism of justice/equity/diversity/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 "political litmus test," and she got roasted for it. Folks called for her resignation, and said the AMS shouldn'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://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1778.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1778.pdf</a>