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Title: Male, pale and stale university professors are to be given 'reverse mentors'
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The Telegraph (UK)
URL Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/educati ... fessors-given-reverse-mentors/
Published: Aug 9, 2018
Author: Camilla Turner
Post Date: 2018-08-13 20:17:00 by X-15
Keywords: insanity
Views: 566
Comments: 8
Male, pale and stale university professors are to be given “reverse mentors” to teach them about unconscious bias, under a new Government funded scheme. Under the project, white men in senior academic posts will be assigned a junior female colleague from an ethnic minority as a mentor. Prof John Rowe, who is overseeing the project at Birmingham University, said he hoped the scheme will allow eminent professors to confront their own biases and leave them “feeling quite uncomfortable”. “What is understood about unconscious bias is that we have all got it, but the more you learn about it and become conscious of it, the more you can act,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “While it is well known and obvious that women and minority groups suffer setbacks to their career progression no one really understands why. “It’s not as if there is any overt prejudice – it is something to do with the way the system is or the way it has evolved and we needed to find out why.” The mentor scheme is one element of a broader project aimed at challenging bias, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s (EPSRC). Prof Rowe, who is director of research at Birmingham University’s College of Engineering and Physical Science, said he hoped to interrogate the “underlying causes” that lead to the underrepresentation of female and ethnic minority academics at the top of academia. “We are mindful that previous attempts at addressing such imbalances have not been successful, so we are investigating new ways of understanding how to support progression of our female and ethnic minority colleagues,” he said. “Questions such as ‘Is there a bias when the gender of the academic is known?’, ‘Is it the result of the group dynamic of a panel of assessors?’ and ‘Are women encouraged to work in particular research areas, perhaps those outside of STEM subjects?’ will also be addressed.” Staff from Birmingham will work with researchers from Aberystwyth University and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. The EPSRC, a government agency, is funding eleven “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” projects as part of an £5.5 million anti-discrimination drive in engineering and physical sciences. It has previously been claimed that Oxford porters should be given “unconscious bias” training, amid claims that they assume black students are trespassing when they enter College grounds. The university’s students’ union published their Liberation Vision document, which recommends that porters should also be trained in how to respond to reports of sexual violence and mental health issues among students. The document says that and cleaners, known as “scouts”, tutors, supervisors and senior tutors should also partake in the training. The move follows a series of complaints about porters unfairly targeting black students and singling them out for questioning about why they have entered College grounds.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Stop before puking. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
"Race/gender is a social construct" and "there's no such thing as race/gender"....until there is.
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." I can't bear to read the thoughts of the mentally castrated, feminized and pussified eunuchs. I just can't.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
Should do wonders in the engineering departments. “While it is well known and obvious that women and minority groups suffer setbacks to their career progression no one really understands why. “It’s not as if there is any overt prejudice – it is something to do with the way the system is or the way it has evolved and we needed to find out why.” The mentor scheme is one element of a broader project aimed at challenging bias, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s (EPSRC). Well there you go. This should be fun, unless you have to live (or not) with the outcomes. “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
I see a porn film sub-genre in the making..... :p “With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." It's been around for years, it took the Brits to subsidise it.
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Pale English male trips on a sidewalk crack and his dick falls into the young Pakistani lass....
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." “While it is well known and obvious that women and minority groups suffer setbacks to their career progression no one really understands why.
#2. To: Lod (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic 
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
#4. To: X-15 (#0)
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
Under the project, white men in senior academic posts will be assigned a junior female colleague from an ethnic minority as a mentor.
#6. To: Dakmar (#5)
Under the project, white men in senior academic posts will be assigned a junior female colleague from an ethnic minority as a mentor.
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: X-15 (#6)
#8. To: Dakmar (#7)
-Alex Kurtagic
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