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This from @mekkaokereke is true of education as well as workplaces. How does the intro sequence hit for students? Are those courses •inviting•, or •weeding out•? Because that right there is your DEI values made manifest, and no amount of trainings and workshops will change that baseline. https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112219016968211952
@inthehands @mekkaokereke I never thought it from the DEI perspective, but "weed out" intro courses always felt like excuses for horrible teaching for me
@lesley @inthehands @mekkaokereke ARE there "weed out" intro courses though? It's been a long time since my undergrad days, but weed stuff was usually late 2nd year, when there were gateways to move to adjacent disciplines.
@jonathanpeterson @lesley @mekkaokereke
Yes, weed-out courses certainly exist at many places, sometimes by accident, sometimes very much on purpose. There’s also an active and thriving movement against them. This is an area of active contention and progress in the teaching world for, oh, the last couple of decades at least.