I’d like to return to the themes of diversity and affirmative action that I wrote about a couple weeks ago. So imagine a small seminary in North America with a faculty that consists of five Caucasian males who were all born and raised in North America. The seminary posts an announcement for a new faculty […]
affirmative action
We especially welcome applications from women and visible minorities
When I was looking for a teaching position in the early 2000s I repeatedly encountered a variant of this statement in countless job descriptions: We especially welcome applications from women and visible minorities. That was a bit discouraging, as you can imagine. To be sure, I understood the reasoning: society in general, and academic institutions […]
