The two main goals of the university, teaching and research, are improved first and foremost by cultivating diversity of thought. Doing so would improve the educational experience of all students—far more than hiring instructors who “look like” some of them.
The University of Illinois Chicago Department of Art History still wants to practice race discrimination, regardless of Supreme Court rulings. In 2023, the Department
“curricular offerings on conventionally marginalized fields such as the arts of African, African-American, African diaspora and Black-Indigenous communities by overwhelmingly white scholars have become ethically problematic. A Bridge to Faculty postdoctoral fellow, who is a Person of Color, will be a major step towards reconciling these conflicts that must be addressed immediately.”
Apparently “decolonization of disciplines” and “balanced art historical coverage” entail more than light-and-kindness curricular reform. UIC’s Art History department states clearly: a white person teaching African Art is “ethically problematic.” A “Person of Color” is needed. Art History professors at UIC, like so many other college administrators and professors across the country, think race discrimination is a moral imperative. Conveniently for UIC’s Art History Department, and other UIC departmentsas “African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaska Native, or an individual with a disability.
Quota programs, the backbone of modern Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion , are often half a century old. The Minority Faculty Recruitment Program at UIC, for example,in 1989. The advent of DEI, however, has given quota programs an ideological charge. Faculty ‘diversity’ programs now constitute the final step in equity ““ started as a hiring program, but it’s not only a hiring program… It’s really a program for change.
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