A College Professor’s View on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We need to embrace what diversity means and what understand what is preventing it.

A subject that has been in the news quite a lot lately as a political issue is diversity, equity, and inclusion, and this is a topic that’s dear to my heart as a philosophy professor. I have taught at 12 different universities over the course of my career. At first, when I started teaching as an adjunct, I did it as a sideline to my working as a contract technical writer. So, I moved around a lot, and I would contact the local school, and say, oh hey, do you need a philosophy lecturer? They said, oh yeah, please come. I did that for a few years, and I’ve taught at a large number of schools, from rural community colleges to big state universities to private urban universities.

I’ve now taught at universities in three different countries — the United States, England, and the Czech Republic — and I’ve really come to appreciate and understand the value of diversity, especially diversity. And if you embrace diversity…