Well, on Twitter under #FordHall2015 they’re acting like they’ve won a big victory.
Here’s a link to the President’s statement:
http://www.brandeis.edu/president/messages/2015-12-01.html
If you’re interested in this stuff, make sure to click on the link to Appendix A, which includes the following piece regarding the plan to hire more POC faculty:
“This program will target the hiring of candidates outside the regular search process based upon their ability to meet our need to diversify the faculty or the curriculum in significant ways.”
I’m just a dumb alumnus (now ex-donor), but my reading of this is that even if you don’t qualify to be on the faculty based on scholarship and merit, if you are of the right race or ethnicity we’ll hire you just so we can meet our diversity quota.
Brandeis goes further down the drain of political correctness. My son was admitted last year with a significant merit scholarship, but his and our preference was that he go to a quality school where he could learn instead of being indoctrinated.