Hi Diane,
I should know better than to use irony on email. Maybe I should go sit in
the "Silly Chair".
Of course there are things to do
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Hodges [mailto:dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:31 AM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: RE: quiet on xmca/diversity dilemmas
don writes:
>Conventional wisdom says its too tough.
don you're so funny!
>See below for another forward from
>the "Tomorrow's Professor" list. White male faculty are the problem and
>the
>only recommendation that this reviewer can come up with is that we (WMF)
>should all read the book under review. Maybe that will bring us to our
>senses. Otherwise, all is lost!
>
>djc
hm. interesting interpretation. when i read it, i thought the reviewer was
suggesting
that if you want to help make a difference, this is a good book to
consider.
and if you're the person on the hiring committee who encourages diversity,
and if you're the faculty who supports the new faculty, and who helps
others
participate in the Inner Sanctum of privilege and so on, then i'd reckon
you don't really
need to worry, eh? you could just nod, and say, "hm. yes. i wish those with
more power and status were like me, and doing more to change the
atmosphere of the faculty."
um, couldn't you?
diane
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"Things do not change: people change."
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
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