Posted on 08/03/2017 1:15:55 PM PDT by BBell
For the first time in Harvard University’s history, the majority of students accepted into the incoming freshman class are not white, a milestone for an institution that prides itself on educating future presidents, CEOs, and world leaders.
But Harvard’s push to broaden the diversity of its student ranks comes as the Trump administration intensifies its focus on affirmative action policies and suggests it will investigate how colleges shape the racial makeup of their campuses.
The US Justice Department is preparing to redirect resources from its civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, The New York Times reported this week.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration said it had no broad plans to investigate whether college and university admissions programs discriminate against students based on race and that it was looking into a single complaint from a coalition of Asian-American groups filed in 2015. The coalition filed an administrative complaint against Harvard University, alleging that the school and other Ivy League institutions are using racial quotas that shut out high-scoring Asians.
Still, news about the administration’s interest in affirmative action policies caught colleges off-guard and raised worries in academia and among civil rights advocates.
On Wednesday, several universities in Massachusetts defended their admissions practices and said they meet legal requirements. They stressed that building a campus of students from different races, places, and a variety of experiences was crucial to their academic mission.
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Without quotas, there would be more Asians and less Whites.
“I don’t care if every seat is held by an Asian if they’ve earned the right to be there.” - Ronald Reagan
Eh. Who cares. That pesthole of leftwing psychosis can do whatever it wants.
Maybe we should have MassExit to go along with GalExit.
Harvard is admitting that it is discriminating against Whites. This is illegal and unconstitutional, even if a law permits it. Any law that permits this is invalid, and not binding.
Agreed.
The son of the King of Spain?
Oh, he’s Hispanic....
When seats in outstanding schools are apportioned by merit, the school looks almost totally white and Asian. Georgia Tech is 30 percent Asian.
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2012/03/23/30-percent-asian-americans-celebrate-culture-campus
When they start reserving seats for disadvantaged minorities, the whites and the Asians are squeezed. The school often caps the Asians as well as reserves seats for blacks and hispanics. The result is a student body in which the Asians look like geniuses, and the blacks and hispanics look like retards. Affirmative action, thus, reinforces stereotypes.
Would it be racist to comment “Hahvuhd is projecting a marked improvement in performance on the field and on the court as a direct result of a less-white enrollment”?
I’m not making that claim, jus’ askin’ da question.
70% of Asians voted for Obama, twice.
Understood. I think the best students should be admitted.
The majority are probably not paying for it either
The majority are probably not paying for it either
Must be racism. Lack of proportionality is all you need to prove racism. I learned that from the SJW’s. Don’t even great new started on those racists down at the NBA.
“What a dump.”
They want to funnel as many non whites into govt and the media as they can. Attacking the majority white population from every angle.
Credit the simple minded white college coaches for some of that.
The Harvard Endowment is Yuge enough to support a tuition free experience for all admitted.
Harvard should be able to admit whatever snowflakes they want.
My blond,blue-eyed daughter-in-law is a Harvard grad. She got in because she was a strong student. She just told my son that if my grandsons were able to get in she would do her best to dissuade them. In general, her experience wasn’t positive. Every friend from college was Asian.
Who gets admitted doesn’t matter nearly as much as who actually graduates. Colleges often let in a ton of under-qualified kids based purely on how well they’ll make a skin rainbow on the brochures. But those kids don’t make it very far.
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