Posted on 09/08/2018 2:34:55 PM PDT by grundle
According to this article from NPR, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, in order to get into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, you have to be in the top 25% of your graduating class.
The school is eliminating the honor society because not enough blacks and Latinos were graduating in the top 25%.
I’m not sure how getting rid of this honor society makes anyone better off.
On the contrary – I see this as just one more example of the dumbing down of America’s educational system.
As to the issue of why blacks and Latinos are underrepresented in the top 25%, my guess is that the school has lower admissions standards for blacks and Latinos than for everyone else. I could be wrong. And I’d be curious to hear anyone else explain a different reason in the comment section.
There may be a statue or painting of a white person somewhere on campus. This would traumatize students of color.
Social Justice and Socialism isn't about making anyone better, it's about bringing people down to a lower, "equal" level.
The only possible remedy to this problem is to select all medical students to this honor society, including, and especially those medically students who fail to receive their medical degrees. It will make them feel better and it will look good on their resumes.
I had personal,long term contact with two minority physicians during my tenure there.One of the two was as smart as all get out and,although I'm not qualified to judge his clinical skills (I was in administration), I'd be willing to bet he would have been there even if he was white.
The other was an outstanding man,decent,polite...a true gentleman in every way.But I got the strong impression that he was of nothing more than average intelligence...which is absolutely fine given that I'm of average intelligence myself.But at a world famous hospital like that you expect superior intelligence in its physicians and surgeons.
It's true that you can't reach conclusions from studying two individuals but that's my experience...for whatever it's worth.
Shhhhhs. Don’t use facts. That’s racist.
Irregardless of the content of their character?
Professor Natasha Warikoo claims that white students "reluctantly agree with affirmative action as long as it benefits them” She's displeased that students she interviewed are motivated by "self-interest" instead of social justice She claims in a new academic study that merit-based admission processes at elite universities “reproduce inequality.”
Harvard education professor Natasha Warikoo draws on interviews with 98 white, native-born students at Harvard, Brown University, and the University of Oxford in “What Meritocracy Means to its Winners: Admissions, Race, and Inequality,” published in the journal Social Sciences. White students “stand in fear of being labeled a racist, but they are quick to call foul should a diversity program appear at all to hamper their own chances for advancement,” Warikoo claims in that book.
During interviews Warikoo conducted between 2009 and 2011, these students were asked to sound-off on whether they felt their school had meritocratic admissions and if they supported affirmative action. Many answered the second question affirmatively and hailed the benefits of a diverse student body.
But Warikoo seems concerned with students’ responses. Analyzing data from these interviews years later, Warikoo points out that students’ approaches to diversity suggest that they’ve “internalized” the tokenistic rhetoric of the school admissions office, even if they had disagreed with policies like athletic recruitment or legacy admissions before coming to campus. (Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Good to know, now I’ll be sure to avoid black and Latino doctors.
Liberals can’t understand what is simply is. Pretending by punishing whites, Asians and intelligent blacks won’t change failures.
What about the Asians? They aren’t about to be any lower than the top 10%.
Fix that by expelling whites so that ... well, you know.
What about the Asians? They aren’t about to be any lower than the top 10%.
From reading about the thing, the impression I got was that a black student was raising a fuss about the lack of minority representation in the honor society, and rather than insert a quota of unqualified minority students, they decided to drop the whole thing.
A rare example of preserving honor.
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