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That sort of level of critical thinking really should be the outcome of all degrees too, tbh!

A few of my co-workers brought this up at a previous workplace and the end result was they stopped allowing employees to ask questions at all-hands.

The questions were along the lines of: Why is D&I openly telling us they are prioritizing the hiring of engineers from Sub Group $A instead of Sub Group $B, when $B is also a minority but is much less fairly represented by our company in relation to the population. The fact of the matter is, they don't want to admit that some minorities in tech are more equal than others.

If they keep pushing this crap it's going to make people bigoted. Sometimes I wonder if that's their goal.

Alas, it's not just the students who struggle in that respect. Over half of the faculty supported them.

You’re lucky they didn’t call for the firing of the people who read the census numbers, too.

I'm an alumni representative on the University's academic governing body (Senate) and was the only person in the room who receives neither grades nor a paycheque from the University.

In light of that, I have a standing offer to speak on behalf of any Senator who sends me written remarks and does not feel safe (either physically or career-wise) being publicly identified with their opinions. I'm sad to say that this offer has been utilized.

That's a sad state of affairs, thank you for doing the right thing and speaking up for those who have been chilled into silence.

That tells me how to value a degree from there when looking at resumes.

The good news is that it varies tremendously across the University. Most of the Mathematics faculty are quite numerate, for example.

If you're considering hiring someone who did a degree in Political Science, on the other hand...

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