The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly was quoted in a story about the diversity of transfer students to the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). From San Diego Union-Tribune:
UCSD is set to receive a “record number” of transfer students mostly from community colleges, which will increase “diversity” on campus. The director of admissions said “we” don’t factor race into admissions decisions but “recognize that the community college population has a natural diversity…diverse by race, age, income…”
She’s correct on that note, and wouldn’t it be wonderful if diversity of many factors—age, income, geography—were as important to admissions committees as skin color? An excerpt:
“The 2010-11 transfer class will have 82 percent more African Americans that last year, 43 percent more Mexican Americans, 52 percent more Latinos and 75 percent more Native Americans…The number of underrepresented minorities is also up significantly in the freshman class, though not as dramatically as among transfers.”
Connerly, who believes UC should be focusing on community colleges, said “I would say it complies with 209 and I would say it is good educational policy.”
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This seems like veiled racial preferences in public hiring: http://alumni.ucsd.edu/s/1170/PageI.aspx?sid=1170&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=3453&ecid=3453&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=2298
“UCSD today announced that it has authorized 33 new faculty searches for the 2010-2011 academic year. Twelve of these searches (36%) are specifically identified to contribute to diversity, equity and climate of inclusion at UC San Diego “
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