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Stephen Downes

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When I was a graduate student in philosophy almost 40 years ago the buzz among the students was that there would be no jobs for men because of ongoing equity policies. All this time has passed and it still hasn't happened and we're still reading things like "a problem where universities 'launch an initiative and they don't have a clear baseline - what are we starting from, for instance?'" The most telling quote, I think, is this: "We need to understand that postsecondary institutions weren't built for diversity in the first place," said Dr. Rodgers. "We know who they were built for. And that is who dominated them for hundreds of years." And still do.

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