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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 3, 2024 0:17:36 GMT
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Post by doctorquant on Jan 3, 2024 0:39:17 GMT
One thing we should be clear about is just what is a "necessary but not sufficient" resume entry for someone to be president at Harvard. "Eminent scholar" ain't really on the list.
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Post by oop on Jan 3, 2024 3:18:04 GMT
I’m old enough to remember when Cancel Culture was bad. (What a very stupid thing in our times) It's not bad if you got a job you were unqualified for under false pretenses. Of course, Harvard will just hire someone else who shouldn't be running a university. Interesting lol.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 3, 2024 13:19:51 GMT
Holy shit, what a headline.
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Post by ecwyanks on Jan 3, 2024 13:34:04 GMT
He stole this idea — which is worse than just using words without proper attribution — from Joe Biden. Caller you say what
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 3, 2024 13:42:09 GMT
Journalists know far less than they think they know.
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Post by gordonbombay on Jan 3, 2024 13:52:30 GMT
I know this is Dick’s territory but it must be said that this from the freaking Associated Press of all outlets is totally absurd
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Post by dirtybird on Jan 3, 2024 14:05:24 GMT
That AP article, blech. There’s a kernel of something interesting, but it’s buried under a bunch of nonsense.
On the plus side, this lady is out of that job, which will bring some meaningful resolution to the folks who so badly wanted her gone.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 3, 2024 14:20:52 GMT
She is not out of a job.
She is going to make $900,000 as a professor, who does not publish.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 3, 2024 14:39:05 GMT
This isn’t the defense of academia that he thinks it is.
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Post by oop on Jan 3, 2024 14:47:24 GMT
She is not out of a job. She is going to make $900,000 as a professor, who does not publish. That just eats you up inside, doesn't it?
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 3, 2024 15:11:56 GMT
Ackman isn't done, and he's exactly right.
He identifies the issues with DEI, and explains why they are so corrosive.
Will be interesting to see if real change happens, or if the chairs just get shuffled.
The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them to obtain their seats.
The Board Chair, Penny Pritzker, should resign along with the other members of the board who led the campaign to keep Claudine Gay, orchestrated the strategy to threaten the media, bypassed the process for evaluating plagiarism, and otherwise greatly contributed to the damage that has been done. Then new Corporation board members should be identified who bring true diversity, viewpoint and otherwise, to the board.
The Board should not be principally comprised of individuals who share the same politics and views about DEI. The new board members should be chosen in a transparent process with the assistance of the 30-person Board of Overseers. There is no reason the Harvard board of 12 independent trustees cannot be comprised of the most impressive, high integrity, intellectually and politically diverse members of our country and globe. We have plenty of remarkable people to choose from, and the job of being a director just got much more interesting and important. It is no longer, nor should it ever have been, an honorary and highly political sinecure.
The ODEIB should be shut down, and the staff should be terminated. The ODEIB has already taken down much of the ideology and strategies that were on its website when I and others raised concerns about how the office operates and who it does and does not represent. Taking down portions of the website does not address the fundamentally flawed and racist ideology of this office, and calls into further question the ODEIB’s legitimacy.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 3, 2024 15:13:24 GMT
When you define everything in terms of race, and in terms of winners and losers, then there is no room left for merit.
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Post by pallister on Jan 3, 2024 16:42:58 GMT
The Associated Press has been garbage for years. So happy to no longer be shoveling their crap to readers as a profession.
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Post by oop on Jan 3, 2024 16:43:33 GMT
When you define everything in terms of race, and in terms of winners and losers, then there is no room left for merit. Keep up the good fight against diversity and inclusion! lol
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