This seems like a major event at MIT. I don't have the time to go through it right now, but I'll link to the report, as well as to some immediate comments from others.
MIT News: MIT releases report on minority faculty. The Report On The Initiative for Faculty Race and Diversity is here.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has a story on MIT's report: Race and Merit at MIT.
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Will and can such an exercise be done at IISc? Is there some 'informal' idea about the caste religious and regional distribution of IISc faculties and research scholars? [An obviously skewed distribution is gender, which is altogether a different issue and been studied as well.]
--VB
In MIT it is easy to categorise faculty as white and non-white or call it minorities.In India any such survey on diversity will flounder as we have too many categories SC/ST/OBC/muslim/christiannot to speak of state wise and mother-tongue wise categorisation.Add gender a heady brew is ready.In India caste and faith (hindu/non-hindu) will dominate the debate.In India diversity means quota and caste based reservation
I think it would be easy to check, atleast from the names of faculty, that there is one Muslim on the faculty of IISc, one Scientific Officer, no Sikhs, a small number of Christians. The number of persons from the SC/ST section is not easy to estimate, but probably no more than 20-30 on the faculty.
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