Last summer, I blogged about Professor Bruce Fleming, a Naval Academy professor who exposed the school’s two-tiered, race-based admissions scheme. An excerpt from Fleming’s article:
“A vote of ‘qualified’ for a white applicant doesn’t mean s/he’s coming, only that he or she can compete to win the ‘slate’ of up to 10 nominations that (most typically) a Congress(wo)man draws up. That means that nine ‘qualified’ white applicants are rejected. SAT scores below 600 or C grades almost always produce a vote of ‘not qualified’ for white applicants.
“Not so for an applicant who self-identifies as one of the minorities who are our ‘number one priority.’ For them, another set of rules apply. Their cases are briefed separately to the board, and SAT scores to the mid-500s with quite a few Cs in classes (and no visible athletics or leadership) typically produce a vote of ‘qualified’ for them, with direct admission to Annapolis. They’re in, and are given a pro forma nomination to make it legit.”
In fact, evidence shows both the Military Academy and the Naval Academy hold black applicants to lower standards.
Fleming claims he was denied a raise as retaliation for writing about the academy’s two-tiered admissions process. He said the faculty committee recommended a raise, but so far he hasn’t received an increase. Fleming contends his department head told him he doesn’t “act like a role model,” because, one assumes, he publicly criticized the school’s lower standard, skin-deep diversity efforts. (Source)
Fleming filed the complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
(Photo credit: Kim Hairston, The Sun)
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