Is Diversity Life? Pitzer Pres. Trombley Says Yes!

The Claremont Independent's Janet Alexander of Pitzer examined President Trombley's social engineering scheme to achieve a "diverse" campus.

Alexander's penultimate paragraph really resonates with me.

The school should be less concerned with racial and gender quotas and more concerned with the actual teaching abilities and past experience of prospective faculty members. Sanctioning this mode of thinking employs a skewed hierarchal value system in which the color of one's skin or the biological sex of a faculty candidate is indicative of the quality of teaching.

Something about these "diversity" lectures always makes me think of former Gov. George Wallace's "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" inaugural speech.

I guess it's because diversity in academia never means diversity of thought, but of skin color, and when you're picking blacks over whites or whites over blacks at the end of the day, you're still discriminating on the arbitrary racial categories and it is still wrong.