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Re: Diversity of candidates was Re: NomCom 2020 Announcement of Selections

Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net> Mon, 25 January 2021 19:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: Diversity of candidates was Re: NomCom 2020 Announcement of Selections
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From: Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net>
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On 1/25/2021 2:55 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 1/25/21 2:06 PM, Michael StJohns wrote:
>
>> Let's have the last 5 or so Nomcom chairs plus Andrew drag in the 
>> appropriate people from some of the larger companies and ask them to 
>> help us with our candidate diversity problem.
>
> Seems like that would be exacerbating the problem rather than 
> addressing it.
>
> Or maybe people keep wanting to define "diversity" in only very narrow 
> terms.   We need more candidates who are not from "some of the larger 
> companies".
>
> Keith
>
>
See my response to Rich's note.   I agree - which was the thrust of my 
"fund an endowed chair" comment.  But it would be ignoring reality if I 
didn't acknowledge that the larger companies provide us with much of the 
support now (and thank you Companies for that) and will probably 
continue to do so going forward.

Mike

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