mmmmyeah, not so sure. http://heterodoxacademy.org/about-us/ It's not that they don't support diversity or affirmative action... it's that they think it ought to be applied to conservative white professors. Which does nothing to validate or invalidate their position. BUT they legitimately present zero real-world solutions other than "stop." I mean... This is a couple academics saying that colleges, which charge tuition, should emulate the changes made by a military force in the wake of the end of the draft. Where you can be thrown in prison for breaking the rules, rather than expelled. Where the money goes the other way, which is what primarily drives enlistment amongst the poor, as opposed to college, where its mostly the rich. The thing detractors love to miss in these discussions is that affirmative action is designed to change demographics for the next generation. You want to make it easier for the disadvantaged to get in so that by the time their kids are ready, they're no longer disadvantaged. We're four generations from this: Now is not the time to wring our hands and decry our failures.Dr. Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Jussim is a professor and a former chair of the department of psychology at Rutgers University. They are founding members of HeterodoxAcademy.org.
In their book “All That We Can Be” (1996), the sociologists Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler describe how the U.S. Army escaped from the racial dysfunction of the 1970s to become a model of integration and near-equality by the time of the 1991 Gulf War.
Universities should consider a similar approach. Race would become less powerful as a social cue if schools shifted their attention away from the raw numbers of students in each category and focused instead on eliminating the gaps between the races, as the Army did.
