![]() ![]() The last line is more true than anything. This also demonstrates how a lot of DEI programming and initiatives are perceived or treated as nothing more than a rehashed version of quotas and affirmative action. The person in the reddit post was on point.to even call someone a "diversity hire" out loud in a public forum is to display one's racial bias for everyone to see. Calling attention to this bias only makes things worse as students who do inevitably come up short of making "sufficient progress" (highly subjective yet based on seemingly objective milestones) to continue in the program. It comes as no surprise that the same faculty who see you as a "diversity hire" have no problems labeling you as an "under-performer". At one of the programs, faculty went from claiming my writing was so "articulate for an underrepresented student" to questioning whether I had done any of the assigned readings all semester. Being perceived as a "diversity hire" translated to TWO early departures from PhD programs, despite having TWO degrees from Stanford. While we struggle to quantify the impact, we are never at a loss for words to qualify the impact junk like this has on all five areas of our health & well-being: physical, emotional, mental, professional and financial. ![]()
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