WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Ever wonder what to say in your mandatory diversity statement when you are applying to teach mathematics at the university level? Lucky for you, Williams College math professor Chad M. Topaz will be happy to get you up-to-speed on how to win your dream job by saying the right things in your diversity statement. To help job seekers like you, he is asking for donors to make tax-deductible gifts to his QSIDE organization.
If you want to get his advice right away without waiting for an academic sugar daddy, then I recommend your read what I take to be his best advice based in an interview he gave in the June 2019 edition of Notices, a journal of the American Mathematical Society. According to Chad:
A strong diversity statement might include one or more of the following components: a discussion of why equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) issues are important; disclosure of your own identities along various axes of diversity; presentation of any formal knowledge you have about EDI; examples of EDI issues at play in teaching you’ve done; descriptions of professional activities related to EDI; and other relevant personal or professional thoughts and experiences. Whether you choose from among these components or include others, a committee will want to see some thoughtful discussion.So, if you're Chad Topaz, I suppose, you can disclosure your own identities along various axes of diversity by talking about what it is like to be a gay white guy gay-married to another gay white guy and how you're upset that blacks are not flocking to support Pete Buttigieg?
Maybe not...
In his original attack on Thompson, Topaz tries to convince us the use of mandatory diversity statements in the hiring process isn't a backdoor way of discriminating against whites and conservatives who believe such statements are unnecessary or unhelpful. He denies that these diversity statements have anything to do with either politics or affirmative action. "A straight white cisgender man can write a stupendously effective diversity statement," according to Topaz, "if he learns about the issues and thinks about how to address them in his professional life."
Really?...
The bottom line is that these diversity statements - as he recommends writing them - are clearly designed to screen out conservatives who are offended by identity politics and the white men or women who are disadvantaged by it. There is no role in Topaz's world for a scholar who thinks present levels of equity, diversity and inclusion are just fine after you factor in IQ, culture, and personal interests. Or, even worse, there is no role for you in his world if you think we shouldn't be held accountable for the behavior of our ancestors by those who take no responsibility for the behavior of their children.
Simply treating your students fairly is obviously not enough...not even a grade of 2 on a 5 point scale of EDI accountability.
Finally, if you disagree with the discriminatory, politicized, hostile approach of woke activists like Chad M. Topaz, then you should be target of his "you're either with us or against us" extremism. If you are on the wrong side of the latest leftist fad, then it is okay for you to be hectored enough in public and attacked enough by on-line mobs to find yourself in danger of being fired from your otherwise cushy college-level teaching job. This is the world of Chad Topaz, a world of hate, discrimination, anti-white bias, and on-line diversity police.
John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND. His pronouns are Master/Commander.
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