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Post by junior on Aug 12, 2011 18:25:27 GMT -5
The Department of Sociology within the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (http://sociology.ucsd.edu/) is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body. In that commitment, we seek candidates for a faculty position in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity whose research, teaching, or service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. We are open to a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Preference will be given to scholars at the Assistant Professor level, but excellent candidates in other areas or at other levels will also be seriously considered. Applicants are asked to submit a CV and samples of their written work, and should ask three referees to send letters of reference. Because a primary consideration for this position will be strong demonstrated accomplishments and a desire to play a leadership role contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion, applicants are asked to summarize in a personal statement their past experiences and leadership in equity and diversity, or their plans to make contributions in the field. For applicants interested in spousal/partner employment, please visit the UCSD Partner Opportunities Program website academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/offices/partneropp/ . UCSD is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer (http://diversity.ucsd.edu). Salary is commensurate with qualifications and based on University of California pay scales. Application deadline is September 30, 2011. Applicants should submit all application materials electronically via UCSD’s Academic Personnel On-Line RECRUIT (https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/ ) (Preferred method). Please select the following recruitment: SOCIOLOGY Assistant Professor (10-290). If you wish to send hard copies of original publications, please mail to: John Evans, Chair Department of Sociology-MC 0533 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0533 UCSD is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong institutional commitment to excellence through diversity. Company: University of California, San Diego Department: Sociology Contact: Jennifer Lewis Email: jennilewis@ucsd.edu Phone: (858)534-4145 Fax: (858)534-4753 Address: 9500 Gilman Drive #0533 La Jolla , CA 92093 USA Domestic Partner Benefits: This employer offers employment benefits to domestic partners of employees. Discrimination Policy: This employer prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation/preference and gender identity/expression.
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Post by MaybeImwrong on Aug 14, 2011 20:03:28 GMT -5
I might be wrong, but I have always wondered how much Race positions were thinly veiled attempts to hire for diversity, but this is the first position that I can recall that makes that point explicit. I am all for the values of diversity--I'm a sociologist, after all--but this has two (at least) negative consequences: a. segregates scholars of color in a particular subfield, b.) it further implies that white scholars can't teach race. I don't think that this kind of thing helps scholars of any race.
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Post by whitey on Aug 15, 2011 9:26:20 GMT -5
I dunno, I'm white and I research race/ethnicity. I serve on my college's multicultural affairs committee. I teach courses in race and stratification. I'd like to think I'd be a good candidate for this position.
Of course, I'm a lady, so that might help. Vagina=diversity, after all.
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Post by same as above on Aug 15, 2011 9:37:21 GMT -5
I am also white (and male and straight) and have a certificate in Africana studies, study racial inequality, spend part of my summer working in a pre-freshman program in africana studies, and was head of the minority coalition in college (yay undergrad!).
In short, yes, there are more than a couple white people out there who can "play a leadership role contributing to diversity."
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Post by guest on Aug 15, 2011 10:14:13 GMT -5
Vagina=diversity, after all. Not in sociology.
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Post by MaybeImwrong2 on Aug 15, 2011 10:42:48 GMT -5
I'm not saying that white scholars on race/ethnicity don't exist... They do, and I think that there should be. But you are (presumably), grad students seeking a job. I hope you get a job, I really do. I'm just not sure you'll get this one, y'know?
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Post by Dr You Want Fries With That on Aug 15, 2011 11:11:46 GMT -5
It seems to me that if you're ALWAYS wondering if race and ethnicity positions are veiled attempts to hire minorities, you should probably spend some time in front a mirror checking your own tendency to stereotype. Are "gender" ads looking for women, "religion" ads looking for religious people, "criminology" ads looking for, well, CRIMINALS?
I agree with the other posts. It looks like UCSD wants to get better at recruiting minority faculty and graduate students and would like someone with some experience applying sociology theory to that practical problem. It seems to me the "strong demonstrated accomplishments and leadership in equity and diversity" is a tip off to that aim, not to a goal of resolving their equity and diversity problems by hiring someone "diverse."
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Post by maybeimwrong3 on Aug 15, 2011 11:12:15 GMT -5
I'd really be curious to know how often white candidates get hired for race jobs -- I'd guess not often. It might be better to play up other aspects of your work and apply for different types of positions (e.g., strat).
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Post by it varies on Aug 15, 2011 11:39:14 GMT -5
I would not make a generalized statement about minority hiring. There are definitely cases where departments are looking to diversify, looking for someone to expand a department that is, for example, 95% white males. Most cases are where the search has other motives [e.g., a simple search or hiring someone the search committee likes].
Bottom line, I would not try reading a hiring committee's decisions, w.r.t. race or *any* motive. There will always be politics involved and its impossible to know what committees are thinking.
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Post by whitey on Aug 15, 2011 12:48:35 GMT -5
I'm not saying that white scholars on race/ethnicity don't exist... They do, and I think that there should be. But you are (presumably), grad students seeking a job. I hope you get a job, I really do. I'm just not sure you'll get this one, y'know? Not a grad student. But thanks?
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Post by drbearjew on Aug 15, 2011 13:59:06 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure the diversity clause is an institutional thing. UC-San Diego (if I remember correctly from this same call for applicants last year) asks for a diversity statement as part of their institutional hiring process. This is whether or not you are applying for a "race" position, or a position with another department.
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Post by MaybImWrong3 on Aug 16, 2011 10:25:21 GMT -5
Ok 'Dr You Want Fries With That,' ALWAYS was a bit strong... You got me. I don't ALWAYS think that. It crosses my mind from time to time. It's not even my field. The rest of your email was a little silly. Of course a criminology job doesn't look for criminals to teach it, but if you think that there isn't an implicit yet clear connection between 'race' jobs and 'raced scholars' and 'gender' jobs and women, you're living under a rock. I might need to look in a mirror, but you've gotta look out a window.
I also agree with 'it varies': I wouldn't want to make a general statement.
Yes: There's an institutional mandate for some 'We hope for racial and gender diversity' statements in every posting... But as I said, this directly links that sort of statement with what they are seeking for the position.
And 'whitey:' Ok, great?
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Post by drbearjew on Aug 16, 2011 12:01:24 GMT -5
It's more than just a "hope" for a statement. www.ucop.edu/ucophome/coordrev/.../PP063006DiversityStatement.pdfMost UC schools (again, if I remember correctly from last year's call for applicants) want you to speak toward their adopted statement on diversity, which the faculty senate approved. If there is confusion about whether or not a "race" position is really an attempt to recruit scholars from diverse backgrounds...just look at who is already there with a specialty area in race and ethnic relations.
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Post by anony on Aug 23, 2011 19:53:23 GMT -5
I am so tired of the thinly veiled racist/"reverse racism" remarks that inevitably pepper the comments section of the rumor mill...although they usually come later in the hiring season. White privilege is dead, there are minorities at every level of the academy, race/ethnicity lines are not as valued as other lines after all, the folks who study such topics aren't marginalized but rather are reaping wealth and rewards hand over fist -- and poor white males, the real victims in the academy, have to wait for someone to die to get a job. Wah.
I hope those of you who hold such racist and contemptible ideas continue to be unemployed. We need sociologists who understand structural racism and oppression to teach the next generation of scholars, not those who continue to use retrenchment and colorblind frames to rationalize their own deserved failure.
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Post by anon on Aug 23, 2011 21:10:44 GMT -5
^Completely Agree.
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