UNR Engineering Dean Publishing In His Own Predatory Journal

[marshwiggle]

If it means someone who is hired that isn't the dominant physical/cultural demographic of the field (women in STEM? Latinos, Filipinos, Thai, African, Indonesian, African American, Indigenous in any field?), then most hires are "DEI hires" and labeling it in that way is odd and really insulting.

Then why is it necessary to have some sort of bureaucracy and process specifically to address that?
 

[fizzycist]

If it means someone who is hired that isn't the dominant physical/cultural demographic of the field (women in STEM? Latinos, Filipinos, Thai, African, Indonesian, African American, Indigenous in any field?), then most hires are "DEI hires" and labeling it in that way is odd and really insulting.

Then why is it necessary to have some sort of bureaucracy and process specifically to address that?
 

Do you have a bureaucracy and process that forces your dept to hire faculty only from specific races? Because we don't.

There are trainings and seminars and even a deanlet. But there are deanlets of all kinds of things, the worst training is still the 90s-style sexual harassment one, and there are so many more seminars on just normal research.

Look I get that there is some academic groupthink and maybe some of the DEI stuff makes your eyes roll. But if it's getting to the point you are accusing a bad engineering dean of "being a dei hire" cuz their black you've entered the groupthink of the racist crowd.