Talk:Abigail Thompson

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A controversy about diversity[edit]

Thompson wrote op-eds for the AMS and WSJ criticising how her university treated diversity statements in recruitment, which has created some fuss and provoked a response from the chancellor and VC of UC Davis.

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1778.pdf
https://felleisen.org/matthias/Articles/loyalty.pdf (non-paywalled archive version of WSJ piece from Dec)
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/may-tull-defend-diversity-contribution-statements/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uc-davis-defends-its-diversity-statements-11577392382

Further comment has appeared

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician-comes-out-against-mandatory-diversity-statements-while-others-say-they
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202001/rnoti-o1.pdf (Letters to the editor)
https://theaggie.org/2020/01/23/abigail-thompson-diversity-statements-are-not-political-litmus-tests/ (UC Davis Student Union magazine)

AFAICS, other usual RSs about higher-ed stories such as the THES and CHE have not weighed in.

I think that the first four of the links above are clearly good sources to add to the article. I hesitate to ctually write the section for two reasons: I'm not sure to what extent the material in the other links supports high quality encyclopediac content, and the response from the chanceller and VC, while making some good points, calls Thompson's WSJ article "illogical" without actually refuting anything she says, so I am not sure how best to frame these posts. — Charles Stewart (talk) 11:01, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have been working on an addition to Thompson page regarding the diversity statement controversy. It's currently in User:AlwaysInRed/sandbox but I am about ready to add it to the page. -- AlwaysInRed (talk) 15:51, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ops - forgot to ping Charles Stewart. -- AlwaysInRed (talk) 17:07, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]