academia – California Globe

Is DEI Ready To DIE?

January 4, 2025 2:55 amJanuary 4, 2025 2:56 am

While it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the term Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) became a specific term in the American lexicon, we can certainly trace the beginnings of its concepts to the middle part of the 20th century. In...

Globe Contributor: My Decision to Leave Academia

May 16, 2024 3:10 amMay 16, 2024 3:11 am

What do you do when your passion and career trajectory have been infected with amorality? This is the question I was forced to ask myself after over a decade of working toward what I thought was to be my goal:...

On Competence: The Failure of the Administrative Class

May 11, 2024 9:00 amMay 11, 2024 9:01 am

The administrative class – at all levels, in all organizations – portrays itself as indispensable. Nothing would get done without the smooth operation of the internal mechanics of a company, a government agency, any group you care to mention. Tasks...

Academics View Less Asian Stereotypes in Hollywood as a Negative

November 15, 2023 2:01 amNovember 15, 2023 2:02 am

A new study from USC on diversity in film and television has been released. The study focuses on representation of Asians and Asian Americans in the current on-screen culture. The good news: Asian representation is higher than it has been...

Political Terraforming

July 24, 2023 2:38 amJuly 24, 2023 2:39 am

If you cannot change to fit the environment, then change the environment. Beavers accomplish this on a small scale by building a dam; futurists look to Mars or Saturn’s moon Titan as places that – over the course of thousands...

SB 721: California Interagency AI Working Group

April 3, 2023 2:33 pmApril 3, 2023 2:37 pm

Senate Bill 721 by Sen. Josh Becker (D-San Mateo) would create the California Interagency AI Working Group. SB 721 would add and repeal Government Code Section 11546.47 to create this Working Group, require a legislative report, and then disband it...