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Of Course This Is Not A Quota!

According to Inside Higher Ed this morning,

The University of California at San Diego has announced that it has authorized 33 new faculty searches for 2010-11 ? and that 12 of the searches will be focused on hires who will ?contribute to diversity, equity and climate of inclusion at UC San Diego.?

This obviously-not-a-quota at UCSD raises a some interesting questions, such as:

1. How should a candidate go about demonstrating how he or she would ?contribute to diversity, equity and climate of inclusion??

2. Is it enough simply to be ?diverse,? by virtue of skin color, ethnicity, or sex, or must one promise to engage in diverse, equitable, and [or?] climatologically inclusive scholarship or other activities?

a) If the former, is a black black person more diverse than a brown black person? Are, say, Cuban-American or Puerto Rican-Americans considered more diverse, and hence presumably more equitable and includable, at UCSD than Mexican-Americans, because there are fewer of them? If so, would Mexican-American applicants have a cause of action?

b) If the latter, how will UCSD determine what sorts of scholarship or other activities contribute the most to ?diversity,? ?equity,? and an inclusionary ?climate??

3. What about the 21 non-non-quota searches that have been authorized? Will they be diversity-, equity-, and inclusionary climate-neutral, or will those searches ?focus? on applicants who have nothing to contribute on those scores?

Discriminating minds want to know....

Full post as published by Discriminations on July 24, 2010 (boomark / email).