Dyqik: No mention of summer internships either. — Subium • Bluesky web client

As everyone knows, when a university hires new faculty, they just stack all their credentials up in a row and whichever one is highest gets the job. Easy peasy.

A lawsuit filed against Northwestern University opened a new front in the legal battle against affirmative action, alleging that its law school hires less-qualified people of color and women over White men for faculty positions in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwapo.st The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

Before affirmative action it was always a pure, some might even say lily-white hiring process.

Oh yeah, pure meritocracy. Your Harvard advisor would call his old Yale roommate at Princeton and tell him you merited a job there.

If you claim to want a meritocracy end legacy admissions and then we can talk

Even more, scrub all proper names out of applications. No family names, no city names, no prep school names, no summer camp names….

No mention of summer internships either.

That is a tricky one to slip in there isnt it. Sends the signal that “I have enough money in the bank of Mom and Dad that I can work for free”

And/or that Mummy and Daddy have enough connections to swing me a paid internship at some prestigious place.

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