Another irony is that these trainings and the faculty involved increase the price of a university education, thereby making it less accessible to lower income individuals.
One of my daughters decided to do the community-college-to-state college route, as it was much more economical and she was able to work full-time while getting her associate's degree. She has just started at our state university to complete her bachelor's degree. Our state system has a community-college-to-bachelor's degree STEM pathway which is open to anyone, but is particularly aimed at minority and first-generation college students.
Anyway, she attended the orientation sessions for students in her program, and reported back with considerable annoyance that they are required to take a DEI course as one of their electives. She pointed out the irony that a group of students, composed almost entirely of minorities from low-income backgrounds, have to pay to take classes on diversity.
"To isolate the effect of the training from other factors, the NYPD adhered to a protocol for a randomized controlled trial that provided for grouping commands into clusters scheduled for training by random assignment. This experimental control was supplemented by statistical controls in the analytical models. Overall, we found insufficient evidence to conclude that racial and ethnic disparities in police enforcement actions were reduced as a result of the training."
Another irony is that these trainings and the faculty involved increase the price of a university education, thereby making it less accessible to lower income individuals.
One of my daughters decided to do the community-college-to-state college route, as it was much more economical and she was able to work full-time while getting her associate's degree. She has just started at our state university to complete her bachelor's degree. Our state system has a community-college-to-bachelor's degree STEM pathway which is open to anyone, but is particularly aimed at minority and first-generation college students.
Anyway, she attended the orientation sessions for students in her program, and reported back with considerable annoyance that they are required to take a DEI course as one of their electives. She pointed out the irony that a group of students, composed almost entirely of minorities from low-income backgrounds, have to pay to take classes on diversity.
Similar null findings for implicit bias training in police departments:
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/909380525/nypd-study-implicit-bias-training-changes-minds-not-necessarily-behavior
From the Worden et al paper at the above link:
"To isolate the effect of the training from other factors, the NYPD adhered to a protocol for a randomized controlled trial that provided for grouping commands into clusters scheduled for training by random assignment. This experimental control was supplemented by statistical controls in the analytical models. Overall, we found insufficient evidence to conclude that racial and ethnic disparities in police enforcement actions were reduced as a result of the training."