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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Belonging

To DEI they have added a fourth term: Belonging. So now it is Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Or perhaps it's Inclusion and Belonging, without a comma between them. It's here where the Oxford comma would be clarifying. Is belonging a different thing from inclusion?  

I helped our ABD grad students yesterday parse some job ads. The university with an actual population of minority students, in Texas, advertised itself as "Hispanic serving." The New England liberal arts school wanted someone with secondary interest in "Latinx." The school in Texas is asking for an actual commitment to diversity, while the school in Vermont asks for openness to different perspectives, but in a less emphatic way. Nobody thinks of themselves as closed-minded or inflexible in recognizing perspectives of other people. 

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