Range statements nonetheless have their place in college hiring

Range statements nonetheless have their place in college hiring

To the editor: Whereas I don’t dispute Duncan Hosie’s rivalry that requiring variety statements within the College of California college hiring course of can devolve into “ideological litmus assessments — bureaucratic hurdles cloaked within the rhetoric of inclusion” and that failure “to repeat the appropriate orthodoxies” may imply that “your candidacy was useless on arrival” in some departments, I disagree together with his conclusion that uni…