John Sailer
@JohnDSailer
Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst. Investigating higher ed. FOIA fan. Tall. Opinions mine.
Fortunately, the scholar-activist pipeline offers more than a diagnosis: it gives us a case study and model for reform. Read about it here. city-journal.org/article/higher…
These are the opening paragraphs from today’s New York Times article. Calling kids “transgender minors” is not editorial neutrality. Nor is it a matter of “style.” It is taking sides in a debate, and NYT has to stop pretending otherwise. Also, “two transgender daughters”?
Dean Ball’s message: for DEI to work, search committees must be forced to hire a BIPOC. That’s precisely why DEI is unconstitutional, discriminatory, unfair, and incompatible with a university’s core missions.
Earlier this year, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, a former University of Michigan dean, described how administrators can and should be "more forceful" in executing on diversity hiring goals. What she describes is basically a clever and very effective assertion of power: —Most…
Thread: Progressives are standing with Sesame Street. For a long time, Sesame Street has lived on in the imaginations of people who think that it is still a little non-profit that generates kids educational programming. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let's see.
The federal government didn’t just fail to investigate discrimination. It funded it. And universities didn’t complain about federal involvement in their affairs. They liked it.
NEW: Around the country, college deans monitor finalist slates, shortlists, and applicant pools for faculty jobs. If a list isn't "diverse," a search can be outright cancelled. I've acquired a trove of records that show who bankrolled this practice: the federal government. 🧵
Anecdotally, the right leaning donors never asked for anything because they were under so much scrutiny, but the left leaning donors/gov would straight demand political favors they could show off to their constituencies. It was an incredibly creepy world.
NEW: Around the country, college deans monitor finalist slates, shortlists, and applicant pools for faculty jobs. If a list isn't "diverse," a search can be outright cancelled. I've acquired a trove of records that show who bankrolled this practice: the federal government. 🧵
NEW: Around the country, college deans monitor finalist slates, shortlists, and applicant pools for faculty jobs. If a list isn't "diverse," a search can be outright cancelled. I've acquired a trove of records that show who bankrolled this practice: the federal government. 🧵
Yet, as the rise of diversity checkpoints illustrates, the federal government has fueled some of the most controversial university hiring practices, giving power-seeking administrators a tool that’s hard for any university to resist: cash. city-journal.org/article/nation…
I heard about a humanities search that the administration wanted to go to one individual and they threatened to yank the money and hire a tuba instructor if it didn’t
And if a search is cancelled there’s a concern by the department that another search will not be authorized so the department won’t want to risk not getting an additional hiring line.