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user-inactivated  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is Diversity?

I'd read that as "we have enough students who aren't white, male and affluent to demonstrate that we are not creating barriers to people who aren't white, male and affluent enrolling here in addition to those that are beyond our control." Reflecting the demographics of the population as a whole would be too high a bar, unless the pool of applicants reflects the demographics of the population as a whole.





galen  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agreed. It's a metric for the school, not society as a whole, and you can't expect the school to correct for such deep societal issues.

bioemerl  ·  3783 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That has to be the perfect way to put it, honestly.

Alternatively "we have enough students who are not of a single background that the ideas produced in our classes are diverse and have a broad platform to grow from"

ButterflyEffect  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think my bar is set too high. I don't expect it to be some melting pot of cultures and ethnicities but I don't think parading around on the premise that this is a very diverse is the right then to be doing.