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It truly is astonishing how common the racism and sexism is on campus today. Oh, our leaders prattle on about diversity and equality, but it takes little effort to discover they don\u2019t know the meanings of these words.<\/p>\n

In times past, they did know what the words meant\u2026but being racists and sexists themselves, they made sure to advance racist and sexist policies in a covert way. So, there was no written policy about hiring, but you better believe most (probably every) campus in this country gave priority hiring to females and \u201cprotected minorities\u201d as they were called. I don\u2019t make this claim lightly, as every hiring committee I\u2019ve been on used the gender or race of the applicant as part of the decision making process, stinking \u201cequal opportunity employer\u201d notices be damned. We\u2019d put the equal opportunity notice in writing to be sure, but there were many unwritten policies we used.<\/p>\n

It was all done with a wink and a nod in the past, but bottom line today\u2019s administrators and faculty aren\u2019t nearly so clever as before, and certainly not clever enough to do things with a wink and a nod. So, now we have documented job applications for physicists<\/a> or university admin which are clearly racist and\/or sexist (particularly against whites), even math faculty positions requiring specific political views (social justice warriors only<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Now, obviously, this behavior is still wrong, and eventually someone in admin with half a brain shows up (takes a while) and points that you can\u2019t be so blatant, and knows that you can\u2019t make such behavior as written policy. It\u2019s all wink and a nod, you know.<\/p>\n

Time and again we get to see this stuff in writing, particularly racist stuff, but today we\u2019ll focus on the blatant, and very common, sexism on campus:<\/p>\n

University stops professor from giving women better grades for being women<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it interesting how this stuff never seems to hit the mainstream news? Anyway, let\u2019s see what prompted the professor to set up a sexist grading policy:<\/p>\n

\u2026he wanted to \u201ctest the water\u201d to see if this approach could \u201cattract female students into future classes\u201d and help correct chronic gender imbalances in his field\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s only one sentence, but it says much about the madness infecting higher ed right now.<\/p>\n

First, this \u201ctest the water\u201d thing. I\u2019ve been forced to listen to, and adopt, so many cockamamie, clearly stupid ideas that I actually see the professor\u2019s thinking here. Most of these ideas are so obviously bad, so lacking anything to do with education, that absolutely, \u201cscrew it, let\u2019s just give higher grades to the females\u201d makes sense in this context. I mean, it\u2019s not like integrity or decency ever seems to get in the way of ideas, time and again I\u2019ve seen admin propose new policies which could only come from a depraved mind.<\/p>\n

Second, the \u201cattract female students\u201d thing. Again, I\u2019ve been bombarded time and again with programs to attract female students, and, again, never has integrity been a factor in any of those programs. So, again, I see the professor\u2019s point: \u201clet\u2019s just flat out promise females better grades\u201d seems like perfectly good bribery, little different than, say, a missionary murdering all the adults in a village just so he can claim credit for taking care of many orphans. Honest, higher ed is just that messed up now that this sort of deranged thinking is consistent with other ideas in higher ed.<\/p>\n

Finally, the \u201cchronic gender imbalances\u201d thing. Again, this concept was hammered into my skull many times when I was at questionable schools. I couldn\u2019t ask questions there, but this is my blog, so I will ask three obvious questions: \u201cWho says the imbalance is a bad thing?,\u201d \u201cWhy will the world be a better place if we change the imbalance?,\u201d and \u201cDo we have any evidence what balance would be optimal, so that we can even say there\u2019s an imbalance now?\u201d These questions are never, ever, asked in higher ed, or if they are you can\u2019t hear them over the endless shouting to fix the gender imbalance.<\/p>\n

What kind of imbalance are we looking at here, anyway?<\/p>\n

\u2026classes have \u201cone or two female students\u201d on average in a class of 20 to 30, and they are \u201cnot doing well,\u201d he told The Fix in an email. These women will probably have to \u201crepeat the courses or leave the program\u201d without a grade boost\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

It always turned my stomach when admin would heap praise upon some faculty for \u201csuccessfully passing\u201d (I still hear the voice saying that abominable phrase in my head) some female or protected minority. Truth be told, I\u2019d sometimes get that praise as well; it still turned my stomach. I passed, and pass, students because they demonstrate they understand the material, their genitals or skin color have nothing to do with it, not that admin sees much beyond race and gender.<\/p>\n

Of course, I\u2019m not a racist or sexist like your typical college administrator, so they saw nothing offensive about praising me for passing people of certain races or genders. But I always felt uncomfortable with such praise, and am grateful to no longer be at a place where I must be subjected to it.<\/p>\n

To the school\u2019s credit, they stepped in and stopped the professor from overtly giving female students better grades just for being female:<\/p>\n

\u2026the University of Akron \u201cfollows both the law and its policies and does not discriminate on the basis of sex,\u201d and that Liu \u201chas been advised accordingly, and he has reaffirmed his commitment to adhering to these strict standards.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So, yes, in writing, the university here will follow the law but\u2026the professor\u2019s policy didn\u2019t happen in a vacuum. He didn\u2019t wake up one day and say \u201cWe need for females passing my courses and this must be done in any way possible, integrity is not a factor here.\u201d He got a memo with that directive.<\/p>\n

I assure the gentle reader, the professor was told many times how important it was to get more females in his classes. He was also told many times how important it was that females get better grades in classes. He saw with his own eyes that academic integrity was of no concern to how any administrative policy could be fulfilled.<\/p>\n

He saw it so often that, much like my examples in the beginning of the article, he was under the impression that sexism favoring females was perfectly legal, possibly even moral, and so he adopted the kind of policy admin was telling him to adopt.<\/p>\n

His mistake was putting that policy in writing. But, I\u2019m sure now that admin has spoken (not written!) to him, he\u2019ll do that sort of thing with a wink a nod.<\/p>\n

Because that\u2019s how it\u2019s been done in higher ed for decades now.<\/p>\n

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