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Yall keep voting for these idiots. Welcome to FAFO. I'm curious how much research money A&M has lost due to Elon/Doge and their cuts to NIH, USAID, NSF.

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However much it was cut is not enough

AggieFrog said:

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Mix of different backgrounds (socioeconomic and ethnic). It's a good thing because it tends to lead to exposure to different ideas which challenges biases, reduces groupthink, and leads to better performing teams. It also better prepares students for the world they'll be living and working in.

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Companies are incentivized to do this. Forcing it has been an absolute disaster. Industry is dropping the quotas left and right all over the country because people much smarter than you have seen actual results.

You cannot make that statement without data, and the only study that all proponents point to was proven false.

ol'Porkbelly said:

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Yall keep voting for these idiots. Welcome to FAFO. I'm curious how much research money A&M has lost due to Elon/Doge and their cuts to NIH, USAID, NSF.

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Not enough. Until we pay off our massive debt, federal government should pay zero.

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Legit question. I'm currently interviewing candidates for an open position at A&M. Is merit the end all be all? I'm trying to find a qualified candidate that also 1) I'm convinced I can do productive work with and 2) has aspirations to improve themselves. If I think, as a supervisor, that I can get better work done with a candidate that isn't the most qualified, then I'm tempted to lean that direction. Is that an incorrect way to view things?

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Well, by MY definition, the most qualified is the person you can get better work done.

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We don't want our best talent to have the best education and stay in state? That's not what would benefit the state the most?

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We do, absolutely. And we have, which is why A&M is substantially harder to get into today than it was 30 years ago when I applied. It's also substantially more diverse than it was 30 years ago. Both are very good things for A&M and the state.

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Know how I know you're a flaming leftist?

Everything DEI touches DIEs.

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In my field, I don't even care if you have a college degree because there are only a small handful of programs in the nation that can teach you more than you would learn in 6 months in the job.

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Being college educated means you had the brains and hard work to get you thru school. Almost everyone that graduates college learns way more in the first 6 months on the job.

I don't know what your "field" is, but if it requires smart, intelligent people and you exclude college grads, you are doing your company a disservice.

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We don't want our best talent to have the best education and stay in state? That's not what would benefit the state the most?

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We do, absolutely. And we have, which is why A&M is substantially harder to get into today than it was 30 years ago when I applied. It's also substantially more diverse than it was 30 years ago. Both are very good things for A&M and the state.

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Know how I know you're a flaming leftist?

Everything DEI touches DIEs.

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Because every differentiation made in the interest of advancing DEI goals chooses second-best (or third-best) rather than **the best** candidate that would be chosen if only merit and competency criteria were applied.

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If this has to do with being left or right, the sips should be getting $0.

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Their leadership has been to the right of ours in responding to the prohibitions on DEI in state law.

A&M should comply w state regs manifesting from the will of the body politic

That's democracy

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Also, you never answered my question. Which university is best representing the state?

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Both have work, A&M is much better today than it was 25 years ago.

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Think we found Welch's burner

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Having DEI is dumb.

Having to need something like DEI is worse.

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There was never a need for DEI. hth.

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Yup. Prejudice and racism are a hoax.

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Thats's a false dichotomy. Prejudice and racism can be real things, but pretending DEI is the only solution that recognizes that is obviously and clearly false.

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I never said it was the only solution.

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DEI is not a solution to racism at all. It's yet another example of the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.

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DEI is using racism to fight made up racism

For decades, education at all levels has been controlled by the Left.

What the Leftists on this thread are admitting is that their racist/leftist policies broke the system. The only way to fix the system they broke is to continue with more of their racist/leftist policies.

Really makes ya think.

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In my field, I don't even care if you have a college degree because there are only a small handful of programs in the nation that can teach you more than you would learn in 6 months in the job.

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Being college educated means you had the brains and hard work to get you thru school. Almost everyone that graduates college learns way more in the first 6 months on the job.

I don't know what your "field" is, but if it requires smart, intelligent people and you exclude college grads, you are doing your company a disservice.

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It does not mean educated though, it means you have some knowledge about a field. Being classically educated is different, also being "college educated" does not mean you have wisdom.

Texas A&M University passed a state DEI audit with flying colors. So what's Dan Patrick's next excuse for with-holding funds?

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-a-m-university-receives-clean-dei-audit-20194073.php

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Texas A&M University passed a state DEI audit with flying colors. So what's Dan Patrick's next excuse for with-holding funds?

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-a-m-university-receives-clean-dei-audit-20194073.php

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Unfortunately the "flying colors" were a rainbow pride flag.