Consider Hiroshima, Japan. Whole lot of poor economic development going on there...
Posted on 01/22/2012 5:12:27 AM PST by reaganaut1
Last month, the Obama administration issued important guidance to colleges and universities on how to increase racial diversity on campuses, explaining ways to navigate the narrow legal channel charted by the Supreme Court. The benefits of diversity, the Department of Education said, contribute to “the educational, economic and civic life of this nation.” The administration’s support for such efforts stands in stark contrast to the policy of the George W. Bush administration to discourage them. That difference has played out between the political parties for decades, as it will in this presidential election.
Race-conscious programs in education — affirmative action in college admissions and voluntary integration of public schools — have been embattled for more than 40 years. Since the 1970s, the Supreme Court has restricted the approaches available to remedy racial disparities, but has left room for institutions to consider race in achieving certain broader aims.
The war has not ended, however, and three notable lawsuits around the country show the continuing controversy. In March, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will reconsider Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in public university admissions, which a three-judge panel of the court struck down last summer. By prohibiting race-conscious admissions under the Michigan Constitution, the court said, the ban “reorders the political process in Michigan to place special burdens on minority interests.”
In the Fifth Circuit, a three-judge panel a year ago upheld the use of race as a factor in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin. Four-fifths of students there are admitted as graduates in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. But one-fifth are admitted based on individual assessments, including race as a factor, and this program is being challenged. The university is waiting to hear whether the Supreme Court will review
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The goal of race preferences in education is to equalize the results of Hispanics and blacks compared to whites. The existence of racial differences in intelligence (as documented in Herrnstein and Murray's "Bell Curve" or Jensen's "g Factor") makes this impossible, but you are not supposed to say that. Even if there were no differences in average intelligence, the differing value placed on education by parents and children different groups will produce different outcomes.
Has Gingrich talked about affirmative action in this campaign?
Of course, this is an ideological not a factual statement.
Do these Jedi mind tricks still work on people?
The real issue of diversity in US colleges and universities is that diversity in political thought is not encouraged or even tolerated.
What a bunch of ROT. Look at what their department of ‘education’ has created. Dumbest bag of hammers yet.
Ahhhh........
But do we have the correct percentage of transgendered Eskimos?
That’s the real question.
Ahhhh........
But do we have the correct percentage of transgendered Eskimos?
That’s the real question.
Why are you asking this question?
As the father of a new college freshman at UT Austin, I was horrified when attending a pre-enrollment parent orientation session at Vanderbilt, TN, where they emphasized their diversity enrollment program, which forgave $40k of the $60k/yr. tuition and housing cost for inner city under-privlidged youth. As a white upper-middle class hard working American, I can't afford to send my daughter there at $60k/yr., but if I were a divorced latino or Black American high-school dropout on welfare with 7 kids, my daughter would have a near free-ride at Vanderbilt?
Call me a racist, but this academia-preferential treatment is anti-white wealth redistribution racism at it's best! What ever happened to the statue of a blindfolded, toga-clad woman representing justice holding the balanced scales in her hand? I guess she is now peeking under the blindfold!
True. Today some of your best students in college are African immigrants. In Britain, Nigerian blacks have the most advance degrees per person. In fact if US colleges had to get diversity and still meet the SAT scores, foreign blacks and South Americans would probably meet the requirement. In fact when some universities did away with affirmative action and still wanted diversity, they got it with foreign students of color. That really pissed off the American black activists.
Obammy,
The quota boy
The higher ed system cesspool
Thank you Sandra Day O'Connor. /sarc
Consider Hiroshima, Japan. Whole lot of poor economic development going on there...
It is a false statement.
There is no study of any kind, anywhere, and no historical example, that lends credence to the proposition that diversity is a strength.
ALL the evidence suggests that diversity weakens, and if allowed to continue destroys, societies.
Libtard Newspeak:
“Race-conscious programs” = good.
“Racism” = bad.
Diversity = divide = weaken.
“Fix the social ills in the inner city and there will be no need for government intervention to assure minority enrollment in higher education.”
The destruction of the family is the root of most social ills, and this administration more than any other is determined to destroy the family. The ills must go on.
“colleges couldn’t ask for pictures of the applicant or the specification of race etc on applications to insure equality of of acceptance procedures”
That was before the more recent discovery by the government that in fact blacks, Hispanics, and women are genetically inferior, and will never be able to truly compete with European & Asian men. That’s how I understand this unfolding.
... by empowering "minorities" at the expense of the majority, and by inflating the credentials of preferred candidates over those with genuine ability. In other words, "diversity" is a code word for politically correct discrimination, equality of outcome at the point of a sword.
Translation: "Equality under the law is now illegal."
How very Orwellian.
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