As a counterpoint to the ‘cancelling is mostly online’ paragraph (or really to [EDIT:] a conclusion that would be natural to draw from it), I think it’s worth noting that the University of California (UC) system seems to be moving more towards a system where academic hiring is predicated on holding “social justice”-ish views on demographic diversity in academia. For evidence of this, see:
this blog post about pilot programs run in the UC system where significant majorities of applicants seem to have been rejected purely based on the contents of their diversity statements.
this tweet thread linking to this opinion piece in the Notices of the AMS about how the UC system is ensuring that central administrators can filter applications for math faculty jobs before math departments see them, administrators who appear to be invested in promoting demographic diversity.
in the same twitter thread, a discussion of the backlash to this opinion piece in the Notices of the AMS (by the same author, Abigail Thompson, as the one above) opposing the use of diversity statements to screen candidates, leading to a professor of mathematics to write this blog post advocating a letter-writing campaign to push for the removal of Thompson from her position at UC Davis.
(Note that I am currently employed at UC Berkeley)
As a counterpoint to the ‘cancelling is mostly online’ paragraph (or really to [EDIT:] a conclusion that would be natural to draw from it), I think it’s worth noting that the University of California (UC) system seems to be moving more towards a system where academic hiring is predicated on holding “social justice”-ish views on demographic diversity in academia. For evidence of this, see:
this blog post about pilot programs run in the UC system where significant majorities of applicants seem to have been rejected purely based on the contents of their diversity statements.
this tweet thread linking to this opinion piece in the Notices of the AMS about how the UC system is ensuring that central administrators can filter applications for math faculty jobs before math departments see them, administrators who appear to be invested in promoting demographic diversity.
in the same twitter thread, a discussion of the backlash to this opinion piece in the Notices of the AMS (by the same author, Abigail Thompson, as the one above) opposing the use of diversity statements to screen candidates, leading to a professor of mathematics to write this blog post advocating a letter-writing campaign to push for the removal of Thompson from her position at UC Davis.
(Note that I am currently employed at UC Berkeley)