Last month our faculty at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, voted to endorse (and presumably to implement) a 19-page document titled Embracing Inclusive Excellence: A Five-Year Plan for Strengthening Campus Diversity. The plan passed by a margin of five to one, although nothing would suggest that most of those who voted for it ever read the text.The expressions of endorsement from its authors and its other advocates were mostly anecdotal. Statements of support included these observation…
