The University of Illinois College of Medicine is promoting a web page that encourages professors to adopt “Equitable Assessments & Grading Practices.” “Equitable assessments and grading practices emphasize the process of learning versus performance outcomes and the attainment of grades,” the page, linked on the college’s website emphasizes. One of the listed benefits of grading according to equity is that the practice allows professors to “respect the diversity of students’ social identities as well as the diversity of student interests. Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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What the hell good is “the process of learning” if it doesn’t lead to measurably favorable outcomes? I don’t care how diverse my doctor is unless he/she can properly care for me. And DEI makes me question whether my diverse doctor got his/her diploma because of his/her knowledge or his/her diversity. That suspicion doesn’t do me or the diverse doctor any good. It’s not quite as bad as getting the diploma in a Cracker Jack box, but it’s a step in that direction.
DEI is dangerous in medians health care. People are trusting their live to doctors. The public should not get the bottom of the barrel. The best should get in and grades should it be adjusted for race or gender.
Looks like they are assuming that people from certain ethnic groups or genders have a harder time achieving high performance. That’s a racist and prejudiced assumption.
I am assuming the equitable assessments are needed due to equitable admission standards.
I have had a few doctors tell me to pick the American born Asian doctor. They have the hardest path to become a doctor.
Similar to your point, picking the Asian American or white male would also be a way to find one who had to be extra smart to get in. It demonstrates the paradox of affirmative action, caused because the world isn’t static.
This smacks of affirmative action. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
I wouldn’t want to have a DEI heart surgeon work on me any more than I’d want a DEI pilot flying a plane I’m riding.
In fact, I wouldn’t hire anyone who graduated from a school that can’t stick to academic excellence.
Bye bye U of I!
Same thing applies to firemen. If my house is on fire don’t send the guy that finished 8th in his class but is a minority so he’s on the crew. I want the best fireman to save me, not the blackest one.