- Joined
- Oct 27, 2005
- Messages
- 34,387
- Reaction score
- 22,589
If I remember, I will see what I can find as to the first point. That’s my belief from interviews and articles.
And maybe where you live, but not here. Especially, criminal justice faculty. As for getting hired, it was as an adjunct, where things are not as tightly vetted and they’re more willing to hire someone with lomited teaching experience. Plus, for some reason, I interview really well. I have never interviewed for a position and not gotten an offer(well, right out of college, I interviewed for a pharmaceutical rep job with Pfizer and they only interviewed me because they knew and respected my dad, who was a fairly famous neurologist. Plus, It’s a smaller school and used to be private. I know I wouldn’t get a job as a professor at a large institution-at least not full time without a phd. I may eventually go back for that. But my student evaluations were all very good, I put a lot of effort into it, met the university president and she really seems to like me and my wife works with my chair’s husband and we knew each other socially a bit-I had been to their house before-so it definitely helped. Also, my predecessor was lazy and did not move the program forward in a good way and did the least amount of work possible, so they didn’t renew his contract and they needed someone, liked me and my teaching style, the students like me, and I am local with deep roots here and live five mins from campus.
So I definitely wasn’t a dei hire. I am all for diversity because I love intermingling with different people-especially their food. But I am not in favor of dei because in my opinion, in order to purposely go out of your way to hire diversity, you have to ignore and not a give a chance to someone who doesn’t fit into one of those categories. In other words, diversity for the sake of diversity involves discrimination-something we should all be against whether it is used as a weapon against a black female or a white male, and that’s definitely what we saw starting with affirmative action but it really kicked up in 2020.
We just hired a new professor and today was his first day. I finished my second class and went to my office and he was moving in and I introduced myself to him and we talked for a while. He appears to be of Asian descent and he is gay and mentioned that his husband is a deputy where he calls home. But I definitely wouldn’t call him a dei hire simply because he’s gay or Asian-or Gaysian.
On my old pd, we went out of our way to attract and hire minorities but we weren’t very successful. It seems no one wanted to move to a mostly white area making what we made-at the time, my old rank, lieutenant got a 40k raise since I left, when they could make more somewhere else that recruited harder and had more to offer-at least people coming from outside the area. And when we did get some, they didn’t stay long because they were so in demand that they got poached out from under us. Plus, in particular, black males were not passing the written test or the background checks. I had a black partner for two years in a row and probably would have kept working with him but I got promoted to sergeant and he got fired for a domestic incident in which he and his then-wife got into it and she took his gun out of his holster and held it above her head and threatened to harm herself. They fought over the gun and she had injuries. I wasn’t there-only those two were, but she did have his gun because her fingerprints were on it. I just saw him two weeks ago at the grocery store and we always got on very well-except that he would drink strawberry milk every morning and then put in a dip of mint Skoal and then spit into the milk bottle and it used to make me sick. I also saw firsthand the amount of hate he got for being a black officer. Sometimes, it was racist white dickheads-male and female, but the worst came from the black community that called him Tom-shit for Uncle Tom. So I get why one wouldn’t want to put up with that when they have other options.
As for Adams first hire-I don’t know. She was female and had 7 years experience on the fire department, but didn’t actually fight fires if I recall. His second hire was unqualified white male, third choice had 37 years firefighting experience and was replaced by mamdani.
