Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Academia with Komi German

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Komi German about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in academia and related issues. Komi is a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE). Komi recently completed her Ph. D. in psychology at UC Riverside with a dissertation entitled, "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Academia: The Faculty's Response." Komi's dissertation reviews the history of DEI in academia and reports the results of her surveys of UC Riverside professors about their views on DEI initiatives. In this podcast, we will cover issues like exclusion, censorship, authoritarianism, freedom of speech, implicit bias, cynicism, dogmatism, diversity statements, privilege, nobility, and the relevance of Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Darwin to the Ivory Tower.