As a follow-up to the op-ed article by Robert David Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, I would like to express my concern regarding the abhorrent behavior of Brooklyn College’s administration to implement a singular personnel policy in hiring practices of “diversity by quota.”

This is diversity run amuck [“Diversity Comes to CUNY,” Opinion, July 21, 2004].

CUNY has made tremendous strides in reforms since 1999.

Under a charter from Governor Pataki and then Mayor Giuliani, remediation was abolished at our senior colleges.

The naysayers protested that CUNY would close its doors to minorities and enrollment would diminish rapidly. Quite the contrary.

Under Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and the Board Chairman Benno Schmidt, enrollment has been at its highest since the 1970s and minority enrollment is at an all-time high, reaffirming that all of our students want a quality education.

Let it be known that CUNY personnel policies are not created by a few ideologues, but rather a uniform representation for all of our senior colleges, community colleges, the law school, and the medical school collectively.

CUNY’s affirmative action policy stands in the forefront of outreach to encourage qualified women and minorities to apply for faculty and staff positions.

Last year, Brooklyn College students made it quite clear to Mr. Goldstein and several trustees that a quality education by professors of scholarship was paramount; anything less was unacceptable.

Diversity by quota does not fit into this equation.

Our moral obligation is to our student body; to send them academically prepared into the workforce.

Let us hope that the Brooklyn College administration realizes its disservice to our students quickly and fulfills its motto, “To Be the Best.”

Otherwise students will go elsewhere and there will be no need for surplus faculty at Brooklyn College.