Via Ben Skinner, a doc student at Vanderbilt (if you’re hiring next year, you should definitely give him a hard look):
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rscorecard/vignettes/introduction.html
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Rufo: Center-right critics are missing the mark on DEI
6 months ago
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“Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has taken decisive action against DEI in universities, threatening to investigate, punish, and withhold funding from higher education institutions that discriminate in the name of diversity. Most conservatives, who correctly see DEI as a threat to colorblind equality, have celebrated these maneuvers. But some center-right intellectuals, who...
The wages of wokeness: interracial relations
6 months ago
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Hmm, I wondered what started around 2014-2015?
25% of CA community college applicant are fake, and they’re using AI to get financial aid
6 months ago
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“25% of CA community college applicant are fake, and they’re using AI to get financial aid”College officials suspect most of the fake students are bots and often, they display tell-tale signs. In Sacramento, community colleges started seeing an influx of applications from Russia, China, and India during the start of the pandemic. Around the same time, administrators at Mt. San...
Even Silicon Valley has turned against academia
6 months ago
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Both Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are very skeptical about the current state of our universities. Pretty eye-opening:
