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B Cohen's avatar

A related question is how much lasting damage has been done by non-meritocratic hiring. It is widely known that Harvard prioritized "DEI hiring" in critical areas like cancer research. And that those DEI hires in turn used similar non-meritocratic criteria when hiring the next round of researchers. How many of those endeavors are producing poor quality output on an ongoing basis?

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Bob Raphael's avatar

Absolutely, and the key is to clearly publish the criteria that you consider in selecting candidates for anything. As long as it is clear, and as long as it does not violate any laws, that should be good enough accountability must be assured.

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Ksg Sherley's avatar

BRAVO Dr. DERSHOWITZ!

Sign me "white woman farmer, former Airline Pilot, & juvenile delinquent counselor".

I'll give you a "good Ole Southern Baptist AMEN"!

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greg starr's avatar

He might be interested in the kids you work with.

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Ksg Sherley's avatar

Two areas I want the "best of the best": my doctor/surgeon & my pilot & you can include my lawyer who defends me against against charges of capital murder. How many prisoners sit on death row today because of inadequate representation? Thank you for the post.

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Randie Walton's avatar

Many, who had no ability to fly airplanes were given jobs under the Biden administration! Scary!

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jtrudel trudelgroup.com's avatar

I am a retired pilot. DEI extended to Pilots, Controllers, maintenance personnel, and beyond.

DEI MAKES PEOPLE DIE.

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greg starr's avatar

No, it was air traffic controllers, not pilots.

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Randie Walton's avatar

OK,!

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Eric Engle's avatar

University education (admission, tuition) should be needs blind, color blind, and asexual.

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Mark Gennarelli's avatar

Over my lifetime of higher education and study of public policy, my college/university faculty were a combination of real practitioners and theorists.

Given a choice, I’ll take a practitioner every time.

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Lizzie's avatar

For clollege entrance exams, should scores be weighted by the quality of the highschool, inversely? Someone from a school with a poor teaching record has presumably learned on his own, for the sake of learning. This person has the makings of an excellent academic, where self-learning can enable a student to eventually surpass his teachers. It would take some research to discover what range of scores produce a graduate of roughly equivalent final excellence. And then one could decide if any other attribute or/qualification correlates with a lower score and better outcome. Is there any measure of a graduate's excellence that is not fully subjective? You might consider who goes on to graduate school as a proxy.

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Samuel Clasby's avatar

What has changed since the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling in 2023? Harvard’s use of affirmative action in their admissions policy was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Has this been corrected? As a bystander, I don’t know. But rulings like these are just another reason I’m apathetic to the struggles of the Ivy Leagues.

The marketing campaigns of these universities still attempt to sell them as idyllic playgrounds for the leaders in western thought, providing cultural enrichment and intellectual diversity for those seeking to learn. But in reality, they’ve been phasing out the pre-requisites for that curriculum since the 1960s. I mean this quite literally, as they were chanting “hey-hey, ho-ho, Western culture’s got to go” in the 1980s with the removal of Western Civilization courses. The removal of this foundational value structure led to a suppression of free speech and diversity of thought that has devolved into outright intolerance in recent years. Yet people wonder where this tendency toward violence came from.

It seems that, in an attempt to reject the concept of social class, the universities abandoned the etiquette but kept the money. So you’re left with poor mannered, out of touch people at the top, with limited mobility for those below them attempting to advance in social class. A big part of the pitch!

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Gail's avatar

Drs Ben Carson, Jay Battacharaya, Mehmet Oz, Harvey Risch, Robert Malone, Jonas Salk, Zev Zelenko, Drew Pincus, Qanta Ahmet

Economists Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Lou Dobbs, Walter Block, Charles Payne, Larry Kudlow, David Stockman

Literary geniuses John Steinbeck, Walter Mosley, William Styron, John Le Carre, William Goldman, Ken Kesey, JD Salinger, William Peter Blatty, Joseph Conrad,

Actors/Writers/Directors/Producers- Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Steven Spielberg, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Sidney Poitier, Jack Lemon, Paddy Chayefsky, Tyler Perry, Elia Kazan, Rod Serling,

Biologists/Physicists/Engineers, Chemists- Michael Levitt, Carl Sagan, Neil DeGrasse,Tyson, Kari Mullis, Peter Pry, Francis Crick

Law /Civics- Clarence Thomas, Louis Brandeis, Alan Dershowitz, Leo Terrell, John Eastman, Greta Van Susteren, Sandra Day O’Connor, Judy Scheindlin, Johnny Cochran, Lance Ito, Jonathan Turley, David Schoen, Thurgood Marshall, Barbara Lagoa,

All different walks of life. Race, Religion, Gender, Cultural Origin, Socio-Economic, Grade School Education, parentage, party affiliation/ideolgy,… What do they have in common? Aptitude, intellect, curiosity, drive, structure, motivate, discipline, competitive nature, focus. The right stuff. And performance.

I selected a handful who never sold out. Who don’t succumb to identity politics, classicism, bigotry, corruption, envy or put politics over professionalism.

Unfortunately, societal decline, cultural rot, globalism, , political pressure , coercion and a horrific agenda and dirty money behind the scenes and a deliberate destruction of every American norm is embedded in every institution. DEI, CRT, Marxism, Islamism, Antisemitism,racial, gender, quotas, lowest expectations , anti-Americanism and exclusion of high achievers in minority categories who eschew divide, graft, leftism,put family above propaganda, question the narrative, graduated with high grades, scored near 1600 on the SATs and did so under the most difficult circumstances are rejected and scorned. The new requisite is self ordained victimhood, the least talented or qualified, no SATs, no achievements, hatred for America, grievances, blaming the achievers for their lack there of, hating their parents, family, and if white, hating themselves., scapegoating and screaming “ racist, xenophobe, nativist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, imperialist, far right extremist, Nazi, fascist, White Christian Nationalist, Asian/Hindu/White/Zionist/Jeiwish/Christian Supremacy, Blackface of White Supremacy, misogynist, Islamophobia, Pinocet/Franco/LatiNazi.. But Liz Warren is a Native American, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, are People Of Color, Rachel Levine is a woman,,Sam Brinson is an atomic scientist, George Soros is Jewish, CNN, MSNBC, CBS is accurate, unbiased and unrevised, straight forward truth. Tony Fauci is America’s Doctor and he is “Science”, the mob protests are “ organic” and college students sporting keffiyahs, masks, waving Palestinian/Hamas/Iranian/Red China/Hammer and Sickle flags, carry placards sporting Death To America/Death to Israel/Kill the Jews/ Finish The Job, Free Palestine with pictures of Yaya Sinwar and Bin Laden, Yassar Arafat and sporting t-shirts emblazoned with “ Queers/Fatties/Drag Queens/Feminists/Jews For Hamas” is a pre-requisite for collage admission.

I’m not religious or traditionally Conservative, but I’d send my daughters to Hillsdale College ,LibertyUniversity or Yeshiva University even if they were offered all expense paid scholarships to Harvard, Columbia,George Washington, Penn State Brown, New York, Duke,Brown, Wharton, Texas A and M university Medical , Business, Law School today..

But thank God my daughters received partial scholarships to NYU Medical School and GWU years ago based on merit and graduated with degrees just before DEI, CRT and Islamic Studies and Marxism became the largest enrollment majors.

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The Hidden Clinic's avatar

Nice post, reminded me of a scroll that resonates with the broader critiques of academic elitism and the disconnect between academia and real-world issues. How can we make academia more accountable to those outside the ivory towers? https://open.substack.com/pub/thehiddenclinic/p/to-the-ivory-towers-that-forgot-the?r=5hogqp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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greg starr's avatar

A starting point is if it is absolutely wrong to apply DEI to workforce underrepresented pedophiles experienced with activity sexually exploiting underage children. Shouild thehy be hired at the same proportion as in the general population? How many active pedos were in the Harvard Law Faculty from the 1980s on? . Has for example Harvard done research on professors accused of pedophilic activiy and whether they behaved, published and graded differently than other professors. Maybe pedo urges were not aroused since the Law students were no longer children...but they might have had kids. Were there any quid pro quos? Could it be that pedophilic urges, not always restrained, are actually incompatible with holding a teaching position? Is it so that once a pedo, always a pedo" and does this then affect hiring? Certainly Harvard would have tort liability if a Law Professor raped a stuident's young daughter. Is there any way for Harvard to protect itself when it hires a pedo? Are there places where the normal population can be protected if a pedo is hired as professor? Or could Dershowitz argue that Socrates might have been a pedophile.and thst pedos are part of the ancient Greek phjilosophical learning system? Why doesn't Dershowitz ever podcast about the effects of pedophilia on predators and victims. Does the FBI ever check his hard drive for pictures? Does he get distracted when the school bells ring? He knows the source material. He was as tight as the chocolate biscuits in an Oreo cookie with greatest pedophile of all time, Israeli intel agent Jeffrey Epstein. Would Dersh like to reveal which Israeli intel agency employed

Epstein and whether Dersh had written objections to the concept of raping and then trafficking gentile children to influence decisions and policies or get secerets or steal krytons? How did -dersh handle the HR problem when virginiam Robert's allegations ofm pedo rape became well known in Cambridge?

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