Meritocracy vs. Diversity....is there a right answer?

TooOld4School
Thu, 09 May 2019 03:07:28 +0000

The problem is that business diversity and diversity in Uni admissions are not the same thing. Business diversity is designed to incorporate people with different experiences and different backgrounds who have different perspectives and approaches, come from different cultures, with the ultimate result to make better management decisions and to design and improve products and services.

Uni diversity, by contrast, has the outward goal of creating a racial diverse/sexual identity diverse cohort by relaxing admission standards for certain URMs and tightening them for ORMs. Sometimes SES is considered too. These more superficial diversity factors are a poor proxy for diversity of thought, which is the core of business diversity.