How prejudiced are our college professors? (2014, universities, salaries)

[leoliu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/op...-too.html?_r=0


This NYT article tells you that higher education is a place full of discrimination similar to other sectors of the society.

[Airborneguy]

...and they're nearly all leftist progressives. Imagine that.

[ObservantNobody]

It doesn't specify the race/gender of the professors.

For all we know the professors could all be jewish women.

4/10

[leoliu]

Originally Posted by ObservantNobody

It doesn't specify the race/gender of the professors.

For all we know the professors could all be jewish women.

4/10

"Professors were more responsive to white male students than to female, black, Hispanic, Indian or Chinese students in almost every discipline and across all types of universities. We found the most severe bias in disciplines paying higher faculty salaries and at private universities. In a perverse twist of academic fate, our own discipline of business showed the most bias, with 87 percent of white males receiving a response compared with just 62 percent of all females and minorities combined."

I never heard that jewish female professors have a particular likening of the white males...if anything, i heard that they generally prefer chinese workers.

[ny123]

Could it be partly because the majority of Nobel prize winners are (I suppose) white males? "These emails were identical"--I would like to see what that email said. Didn't the student need to say where he/she had studied?

[Harlem resident]

The anti-woman bias in academia is by far the most prevalent.
It is comprehensive and it will not go away any time soon.

[bigjake54]

Originally Posted by leoliu

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/op...-too.html?_r=0
This NYT article tells you that higher education is a place full of discrimination similar to other sectors of the society.

I don't know that I find their methodology acceptable, even though they claim that it is.
IMO, a better practice would to send multiple similar requests from different backgrounds to individual professors, to see whether the recipients respond to one perceived ethnicity/gender more than others.

[leoliu]

Originally Posted by bigjake54

I don't know that I find their methodology acceptable, even though they claim that it is.
IMO, a better practice would to send multiple similar requests from different backgrounds to individual professors, to see whether the recipients respond to one perceived ethnicity/gender more than others.

I agree and that would have allowed them to partially rule out the inherent non-responsive nature of certain professors. Also, the results are worthy reporting particularly because they found that white males are the preferred ones, which fits right into the color and gender elements of perceived prejudice.

" These emails were identical and written in impeccable English, varying only in the name of the student sender. ....In total, we used 20 different names in 10 different race-gender categories .....On a Monday morning, the emails went out — one email per professor — and then we waited to see which professors would write back to which students "

[Mistertee]

Originally Posted by ny123

Could it be partly because the majority of Nobel prize winners are (I suppose) white males? "These emails were identical"--I would like to see what that email said. Didn't the student need to say where he/she had studied?

Could it be that an quality education was denied for a long time to ppl of color?

[MilksFavoriteCookie]

As much as ppl praise NY times they sometimes publish some dumb articles.

Random emails 411 ppl don't respond to spam.
Most professors would find it rude that a student interested in xyz class is asking the professor about xyz class.
That's like being interviewed and the interviewer knows nothing about their guest:



Pretty sure bulk of those automatic spam emails were just that.
Automatic spam emails that regardless of race, most don't respond too.
If they did respond as NYT claims, pretty sure they responded too with one liners and
the "proposed date" was more than likely during the professors extra help hours when you know they are supposed to help students.