January 2009

Ending Race Preferences Would Decrease Minority Enrollment

January 20, 2009

The selection of students based on race, although considered immoral and illegal 40 years ago, is justified today for purposes of skin color diversity. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, diversity produces educational benefits. This educational value of racial diversity is that it prepares white students for workplace diversity. According to a study released in October [...]

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Holistic Admissions and ‘Human Accomplishment’

January 16, 2009

Jay Schalin, a senior writer with the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, informs us that in February, the University of California’s (UC) administration and faculty senate plan to discuss changing the admission policy to downplay standardized test scores, and give more weight to high school class rank and subjective factors like “life [...]

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National Association of Scholars Discuss Obama

January 15, 2009

Last week, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) held a conference in the nation’s capital called “The Changing Landscape of American Higher Education.” Speakers included Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning; the American Civil Rights Institute’s Ward Connerly, author of Lessons from My Uncle James; NAS’s Peter Wood, author [...]

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Why Do Black Students Lag Behind Peers?

January 14, 2009

Why do black students lag behind their peers? There are plenty of theories and debates on the topic. Some say it’s the culture. Others say it’s in the genes. Still others blame poverty. Regardless of the reason, the question is, what, if anything, can the education system do about it? One “solution” has been to [...]

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Middletown to Encourage Race Disclosure for “Diversity’ Hiring

January 9, 2009

With no shame whatsoever, the board of the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York, will offer job applicants the option to reveal their race in order to increase the number of blacks and Hispanics so that employees can “more closely match” the skin color demographics of the students. (Source) In my view, race-neutral [...]

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UT’s 10 Percent Admissions Plan Causing Capacity Problems

January 9, 2009

Dilemmas, dilemmas! It seems that Texas’s practice of automatically admitting any student who graduates in the top 10 percent of his high school class is having unintended but reasonably expected consequences. A little background… In 1996, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in Hopwood v. Texas that using race preferences in [...]

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Non-Resident Preferences at UC?

January 7, 2009

It’s a provocative post title, but non-resident preferences may become a reality in the University of California system (UC). Yesterday I linked to an op-ed penned by Ward Connerly, in which he cited California’s perennial budget woes. Well, UC officials may have come up with a solution: granting preferences to applicants who will pay out-of-state [...]

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Ward Connerly: ‘I love California!’

January 6, 2009

The American Civil Right Institute‘s Ward Connerly expresses his love for the state, but acknowledges its less than desirable qualities, including, high taxes, budget shortfalls, an out-of-control criminal justice system, and dysfunctional government schools. (Source) “And I would have some doubt about the long-term ability of California to manage all of its racial and ethnic [...]

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Broward County Sued Over Race-Based Contracts

January 6, 2009

In 2007, Broward County, Florida, was sued over so-called reverse discrimination in awarding government contracts and responded by suspending a program that “required bidders share part of their contracts with businesses owned by women and minorities.” (Source) Apparently, the suspension didn’t go far enough. Last week, two transportation service companies filed suit against the Broward [...]

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MoCRI Language Faces Legal Challenge

January 2, 2009

All is not well with the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI). I mentioned earlier this week that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan approved the proposed initiative that would ban the state from discriminating against and preferring people on the basis of race and sex. But the language contains the same wording as a 2008 effort [...]

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