Heather MacDonald takes Harvard to task for their quota counting:
If untapped pools of highly qualified female and minority candidates existed out there, schools would have snapped them up long ago—if not your college, then its dozens of competitors, just as desperate to placate the quota gods.
Which leads to a very important conclusion.
Just how much are you willing to lower your standards to achieve “diversity?” If more women and minority faculty could be had who met Harvard’s standards for Caucasian and Asian males, the university would have hired them years ago. The only way it will achieve increased female and race “diversity” in the foreseeable future is to set a lower standard for female and minority hires.
City Journal. To help push the agenda forward is Summers critic Theda Skocpol who was just appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Boston Globe. As you can probably guess,"diversity" doesn't mean hiring libertarians,registered Republicans,and evangelical Christians.