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The Diversity Mania

Here is a memo from a large academic department at the University of North Carolina:

Dear All,

I am completing our annual departmental diversity survey and need you to respond to me on three questions, if applicable. 

1.       Please list the most important conferences, events, seminars, symposia, or advising activities related to diversity that your unit provided in the Spring 2011, Fall 2011, or in Summer 2011.

2.       Please provide up to five citations with full bibliographical information regarding research published during calendar year 2011 by faculty or students in your unit concerning issues of diversity.

3.       Please provide information regarding important engagement activities during calendar year 2011 by faculty or students in your unit concerning issues of diversity that are not listed above.

Please email me your responses by Weds, January 25th.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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