The justification for the one-page summary of candidates' on-the-job contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion is to incentivize faculty as early as possible to do societally impactful work, said Bill Bernhard, executive vice provost for academic affairs.
This is horrible. To an outsider looking in, this is forcing professors to commit to left-wing Democrat ideology. Just like the communists in Russia and today in China required all university employees to commit in writing to the ideology of the communist party. One would think that professors would be abhorred by this requirement – but they are not, because they support this. This is what they want. They are no different than the communist party.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
This is horrible. To an outsider looking in, this is forcing professors to commit to left-wing Democrat ideology. Just like the communists in Russia and today in China required all university employees to commit in writing to the ideology of the communist party. One would think that professors would be abhorred by this requirement – but they are not, because they support this. This is what they want. They are no different than the communist party.