Iowa St embracing the Rural Iowa White Male victim, assisted by the Iowa GOP
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Gasp!!!!!! The university wants to cater to it's biggest customer demographic.
They had these learning communities at Iowa when I went my freshman year. It met from 9pm-2am at Joe’s Place.
Why does anyone care about the diversity group they had to begin with or any group they are making now.
Why do we have to cater to people all the time.
Why do we have to cater to people all the time.
It was a hot button issue back in the 80's when I was headed off to Central College, how would a young, white, middle class male fit in with the rest of the students? Would I have a safe space? Then the first night the guys on my floor all went out to Cleats and Spikes for dime draws and I realized they were all pretty much like me only from Oelwein, LaPorte City, Waukon, New Sharon, and Waverly.
How does this action improve their education? If your goal is to graduate from ISU and go home to Ida County you are set. If you goal is to take your STEM degree and work for a multinational corporation, or set out on your own, then you aren't being served well by this.
I guess if your goal is to get your STEM degree and work for a multinational corporation, maybe ISU isn’t for you to begin with.
Or if they have a STEM degree maybe they didn’t need that diversity group that was costing a million dollars every year anyway.
The left: DEI is great! Unless it includes white guys from Blairsburg.
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I aspire to the old saying…everything I really needed to know, I learned in kindergarten! It’s not that hard…be kind to others, share, and clean up after yourself. 😉
Snapshot of ISU's demographics. It's a far cry from the 7-1 male to female, overwhelmingly white ISU of your youth.
Male / female equity is growing in the student and faculty populations, and out of state undergrads continue to grow.
https://www.collegefactual.com/coll...sity/student-life/diversity/#gender_diversity
Counterpoint: it’s beneficial to be exposed to people and cultures you’re not used to while attending college.
Could likely help people in many subtly different ways that aren’t specifically listed degrees.
So you need to spend millions of dollars to do that. Can’t they ya know just meet each other and hang out? Social media has made it pretty easy to meet new people from anywhere in the world.
It’d be interesting how many on here think they’ve had this type of diverse experience yet the second you have a different opinion then them on something they call you a maga or libtard
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Good news for Iowa schools.
Racism as formal policy should never be tolerated.
Racism as formal policy should never be tolerated.
The Supreme Court agrees with me.
Eat shit chis you racist bigot.
As a straight white male that grew up in rural Southwest Iowa its frankly insulting that Iowa Republicans think that we need to be coddled when we go off to college. Stop trying to make my people out to be victims!
Haven’t we established by now that social media is a poor substitute for real life interactions?
The whole country has had to pick a president off the opinions of white men from Iowa for 40 years but once a few colleges try to include other people, the white men are actually the victims.
Gotta love it.
Gotta love it.
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I remember when the GOP was all about “local control” and not mandating policiy via legislation.
The notion some chaw spitting dipshit senator from Eagle Grove knows better how the University of Iowa should run than actual academics is hilariously ludicrous.
The notion some chaw spitting dipshit senator from Eagle Grove knows better how the University of Iowa should run than actual academics is hilariously ludicrous.
A necessity
So for rural whites you call it "coddling" but for others you call it a "necessity".
Good DEI is terrible.
Welcome all shapes, races, and pronouns into universities and trade schools based off TEST SCORES and MERIT. The country needs the best of the best graduating and using their skills regardless of what they look like.
I want the best pilot flying my plane and I want the best doctor doing my surgery regardless of race. White, Black, Brown, Asian, whatever I don't care. The last thing I want to hear before I go under is "The best doctor to remove your tumor is available but sorry we need to hit our Korean doctor quota for the week"
Welcome all shapes, races, and pronouns into universities and trade schools based off TEST SCORES and MERIT. The country needs the best of the best graduating and using their skills regardless of what they look like.
I want the best pilot flying my plane and I want the best doctor doing my surgery regardless of race. White, Black, Brown, Asian, whatever I don't care. The last thing I want to hear before I go under is "The best doctor to remove your tumor is available but sorry we need to hit our Korean doctor quota for the week"
While j don’t love hiring/admissions practices that overemphasize diversity, it’s not solely without merit to suggest it should be a consideration, as humans tend to be creatures of habit and would be far less likely to do so without a push.
I would mention that this is only a very small part of what DEI is meant to do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion - Wikipedia
I agree diversity is good. It's why this country is amazing. My issue is Schools and/or jobs telling a highly qualified and maybe even perfect applicant they aren't allowed in because they need to accept a minority who may not be nearly as qualified.While j don’t love hiring/admissions practices that overemphasize diversity, it’s not solely without merit to suggest it should be a consideration, as humans tend to be creatures of habit and would be far less likely to do so without a push.
I would mention that this is only a very small part of what DEI is meant to do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion - Wikipedia
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And if that’s the primary factor for that decision, I agree. Where I disagree is the idea some opponents of diversity in hiring/admitting is the idea that previously only the best qualified ever got hired or admitted. Additionally, there is something to be said for the forcing the hands to some extent here. I’m glad you agree about diversity being good. Well, historically that’s been needed to be forced on us at times. Just look at the struggle to end legalized segregation for example.
Again tho - you’re only focusing on the Diversity portion here. What are your thoughts on the Equity and Inclusion bits?
Those don't bother me. If you do the same amount of work as someone who has been there as long as you you should be paid the same so as long as your hours are equal. Honestly if you think about it "E" and "I" should be easy as a boss so long that you aren't a complete miserable human being
While j don’t love hiring/admissions practices that overemphasize diversity, it’s not solely without merit to suggest it should be a consideration, as humans tend to be creatures of habit and would be far less likely to do so without a push.
I would mention that this is only a very small part of what DEI is meant to do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion - Wikipedia
"A push" you say" "Forcing the hands you say"? And who gets anointed to be the grand arbiter of the "push"?
We already have laws on the books the make discrimination unlawful.
De Jure discrimination is illegal, sure. De facto discrimination is still quite common unfortunately.
