Any college profs or administrators here?

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3. Use ChatGPT

Seriously. I've served on many search committees that require statements of teaching philosophy (although not DEI). Almost all sound alike and really communicate nothing. I've come to believe that such statements are performative rather than substantive.

After reading the posting from Drexel, I think that implementing these suggestions could be difficult if not impossible to implement in many disciplines and there's always a risk in asking students to share personal information of any kind in a classroom. Of course, Drexel is a private university, and private universities are free to require what they want. In the public university where I have taught for the past 40 years, such requirements could be reasonably perceived as loyalty oaths because they demand adherence to a particular interpretation of DEI.

I am a "hereditary academic." My father was a professor of Russian history in the postwar period and I learned from him about pressures on faculty. Soviet communism was bad. Requiring anticommunist statements of academics was wrong.

You're being asked to perform, so use ChatGPT. It's the performance that counts, not the substance.