oh, one thing I forgot: a long article on the need for political diversity in American universities. They find it deplorable that (as most educated people actually), much of the faculy in top universities is democrat. They cite Harvard and U of California as the biggest employee donors for Kerry, ahead of Microsoft, Time Warner or Goldman Sachs.
And go on to make the claim that since a lot of academics are for diversity of the student and faculty body, they should also push for political diversity of the faculty body. hence, hire lots of conservatives.
What seems fundamentally flawed to me is that you're born male or female, black, latino or white. There's nothing (in most cases) you can do about it. But you're not born democrat or republican. I don't think it should be used in cases where you really do have a choice on where you stand. Not to mention that it would seriously dilute an already struggling affirmative action. Ah, maybe that's what they're after.
Thoughts anyone?
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