A University of Alabama earth sciences professor said he is quitting over what he called the “rise of illiberalism” and a push for diversity, equity and inclusion that he said ultimately harms students in a tweetstorm that went viral.
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Although the earth sciences professor said colleges need more diversity and administrators’ “hearts are in the right place,” DEI goes against Martin Luther King’s wish for people to be judged by their character. Wielicki claimed that DEI “has become some way of universities trying to build up their virtue signaling by the number of minority students without really concern whether those students are being successful once they leave those universities, and I think that’s the opposite of what we should be thinking about when we teach our students.”
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