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Diversity Drift, Jonathan Feingold
Diversity Drift, Jonathan Feingold
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Diversity may be under attack in the age of Trump, but higher education in America has its own diversity problem. If mission statements and strategic plans offer any guidance, many of America’s colleges and universities actively value diversity. Yet even as calls for diversity grow, these calls far too often lack a clear and coherent normative anchor. Institutions often seek “diversity” without first having done the work to define, precisely, why they want diversity, or to identify, concretely, what sorts of diversity will get them there.
As a result, universities have become susceptible to diversity drift, whereby good intentions invite …