Did you know that prospective faculty also have to write a statement about their research, teaching, and service when they apply for a job? Is that also conspicuously performatively doing the right thing in those job responsibilities?
Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements
by freeone3000 on Sunday May 05, 2024 @10:16PM
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(Maybe conspicuously doing what is perceived as the right thing is how people get hired…)
That way they can point to their statement anytime grant writers/sponsors need to show their respective stakeholders that they’re ’good folks’.
Don’t worry, regardless they’ll still treat their grad students as terribly as the law allows (and a bit worse).