David Christopher Kaufman: “Equity,” Employers are now ignoring educational achievement

Conservative News DailyJanuary 1, 2023

Today, at most two-thirds of higher education institutions, including Harvard and Stanford, don’t require the SAT for admission. American Bar Association has recently announced that they will. drop the LSAT As an admissions requirement to law school. Now, some are calling for the prestigious MCAT to be scrapped as the gold standard for medical school admissions — all in the name of racial equity.

As a result, colleges are now the most recent standard to be cut, as evidenced by a recent job listing for a position in the director’s office.

A LinkedIn posting TriBeCa-based HR&A Advisors asked prospective applicants for the $138,432-to $121,668-per-year position to be removed. “all undergraduate and graduate school name references” from their résumés and only cite the degree itself. A quick spin through a few other HR&A job postings confirmed that this policy extends company-wide as part of their “ongoing work to build a hiring system that is free from bias and based on candidate merit and performance.”

David Christopher Kaufman: “Equity,” Employers are now ignoring educational achievement — Schools like Harvard have removed education history from resumes in order to eliminate long-standing admission requirements, such as standardized testing.

It is not surprising that employers are trying to overlook the educational benefits of new employees at a time when equity policies and inclusion policies are corporate must-haves. Colleges and universities are a good example of this. even the military (which no longer requires a high school diploma) drop the most basic entry requirements, why shouldn’t the private sector follow suit?

There’s no doubt that access to fancy schools and pricy education has historically shut out racial and economic minorities from many employment arenas — particularly at the highest ends of the earning spectrum. But obscuring education histories won’t solve these inequities. It only creates more.

The American Bar Association is also phasing out standardized testing and no longer requires LSAT scores for entry into law school. — American Bar Association is also moving away from standardized testing. LSAT scores are no longer required for admission to law school.

One, companies such as HR&A still consider education important. If it didn’t, they would ask candidates to Completely Take out schooling and not only school names from your CVs.

The second is that education matters for job candidates. Many people have borrowed money to get college degrees. Signify something To the HR&As all over the world. Many college students have also spent hours supporting academic societies, college sports teams, and other extracurricular activities. This is both a resume-building activity and is deeply rewarding.

The military, too, has abolished traditional entry requirements such as a high school diploma for prospective recruits. — For prospective recruits, the military has also abolished high school diplomas as entry requirements.

While removing education histories from CVs may appear to level the playing field, it actually creates new forms of inequities while suggesting that academic achievement does not matter to minorities. — It may seem like removing educational histories from CVs will level the playing fields, but it actually creates new forms and inequalities while suggesting that academic achievement doesn’t matter to minorities.

I myself attended universities (Brandeis, NYU) that were far above my family’s affordability level precisely because I knew they were investments in my long-term earning potential as well as a way to keep me on the straight and narrow in high school. Sure, as with many Americans — particularly African-Americans like myself — I took on student debt. The pursuit of academic success did not only help me avoid teenage troubles but it also gave me a good job and a strong sense and self-worth.

Policies like HR&As are not just punitive, they’re downright lazy. Telling young people —particularly the young people-of-color this “school-blind hiring” purports to benefit—that academic prestige doesn’t matter literally reinforces the worst stereotypes of minority cultures. It says academic prestige doesn’t matter To them.

Higher education is not just about academics, but extracurricular activities such as college sports teams, which can both improve a job candidate's competitiveness and self-esteem. — Higher education is not just about academics, but extracurricular activities such as college sports teams, which can both improve a job candidate’s competitiveness and self-esteem.

Furthermore, for HR folks and recruiters, ignoring educational bona fides — while appearing benevolent—is a missed opportunity to truly learn, as they say in woke-speak, about the “lived experiences” Because they want to attract the diverse workforce that they so desperately need.

Many black students have attended historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) like my grandparents. These are not just places of learning, but integral components of their graduates’ identities. HBCUs have a meaning: they matter. These well-intentioned initiatives, dominated largely by white liberals erase that meaning.

Ignoring education histories also denies the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Howard University in Washington, DC in their graduates' identities and lives. — Ignoring education histories also denies the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Howard University in Washington, DC in their graduates’ identities and lives.

This is why school-blind hiring feels so frustrating — and phony. It gives already unmotivated workers a second task while they are able to improve their anti-bias skills for doing literally nothing.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that graduates of schools less costly or “lower ranking” My American Dream should not be denied to anyone other than me. Instead, hiring groups need to work harder to figure how to get there without erasing other’s educational achievements.

David Christopher Kaufman works as an editor and columnist. [email protected]