As you're saying, you're hiring based on merit and you have not seen that the quality of the research has been diminished because a more diverse group of professors or academics have been recruited. How do we handle this to make sure that we continue to have academia that reflects the population but doesn't diminish the quality of research?
You're saying to me that, in your experience, it has not diminished the quality of the research, but at the same time we're saying we need to be doing something different.
