Professors from the University of Arizona and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs are arguing that “success and merit” are “barriers” to the equity agenda.
“Admitting that the normative definitions of success and merit are in and of themselves barriers to achieving the goals of justice, diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary but not sufficient to create change,” professors Beth Mitchneck and Jessi L. Smith recently wrote for Inside Higher Education.
Mitchneck and Smith attributed those definitions to a “narrow definition of merit limited to a neoliberal view of the university.” Specifically, they express concern that universities receive funding and recognition based on the individual performances of professors’ own work such as peer reviewed journals and studies.
they are right, mr gates and mr buffet should give me all their billions!
Don’t they see that they are perpetuating the idea that black people just can’t do ANYTHING without a little help from white people??
They can’t pass tests, they can’t think well, they can’t perform the same job, they can’t be EQUAL until white people lower the standard so they can achieve whatever goals white people met for years….
“the bigotry of low expectations”
Sounds like racial discrimination to me. Looks like it, too.
What a bunch of communists/socialists!
Success and Merit are what sets us apart! We need them!
Ever work in a union shop?
Just what these “professors” argue for. No matter how hard you work or how much you slough off, it pays the same. The natural tendency is to slough off as much as possible since it’s easier.