Regarding Jon’s posting, the new “diversity czar” at NCSU is really a piece of work, suggesting that “An engineering professor could require students to go into the community to conduct group projects, then grade them on their interactions with residents.” I wonder exactly how much time he expects engineering classes to waste on feel-good stuff like that before they can get back to learning what they need to learn. This is all part of the bigger movement in all American education to move away from knowledge and toward the shaping of attitudes.
Paying to have a “diversity czar” who will find an endless stream of petty complaints (“we don’t feel comfortable here”) is a stupendous waste. He will come to be the Antitrust Division of NC State, incessantly hunting for every little gripe of a “minority” student in order to justify his continuing presence.
Apropos of that, a piece worth reading is William McGowan’s discussion of the hostile reception his book on the excesses of diversity in journalism has been receiving.
