Politics
ANDREW SHI | On Hiring Conservative Faculty
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Re: “What Kind of White Faculty Should We Hire?,” Sunspots, Dec. 10
Christian Brickhouse recently penned an ambitious essay in this newspaper. Amongst other things, the author argued against the idea of creating a political diversity initiative in campus-wide faculty hiring. This “Republican Affirmative Action” as he coins it does sound counterintuitive, if not offensive. After all, CS majors or sociolinguists or behavioral psychologists are no more likely to better understand concepts taught by a Republican professor.