Best DEI Money Can Buy, Failed
The bullets below are direct quotes from The New York Times . It’s a damning assessment for university DEI programs. My view of the bottom line is that university DEI tend to be expensive, make-work policies and practices that foster grievances and largely provide lip service to those that they were built fo r. A lose-lose endeavor. I personally experienced the culture of preference, discrimination, grievances and accusations during the last third of my 31 year career at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2010 to 2021). It took away a big part of the fun teaching large undergraduate classes. It also enabled hypersensitive faculty, staff and students to create mountains out of molehills. I was lucky to be in Engineering which has only a small fraction of DEI issues as other colleges, but the DEI presence was looming large, particularly in my last six years as a department chair. The DEI climate was one of a handful of factors in my decisions to step down from Chairman after six yea...