Just Photoshop them in, and declare victory.
Posted on 12/02/2011 6:41:41 PM PST by reaganaut1
The Obama administration on Friday urged colleges and universities to get creative in improving racial diversity at their campuses, throwing out a Bush-era interpretation of recent Supreme Court rulings that limited affirmative action in admissions.
The new guidelines issued by the Departments of Justice and Education replaced a 2008 document that essentially warned colleges and universities against considering race at all. Instead, the guidelines focus on the wiggle room in the court decisions involving the University of Michigan, suggesting that institutions use other criteria — students’ socioeconomic profiles, residential instability, the hardships they have overcome — that are often proxies for race. Schools could even grant preferences to students from certain schools selected for, among other things, their racial composition, the new document says.
“Post-secondary institutions can voluntarily consider race to further the compelling interest of achieving diversity,” reads the 10-page guide sent to thousands of college admissions officials on Friday afternoon. In some cases, it says, “race can be outcome determinative.”
The administration issued a parallel 14-page outline on Friday for the nation’s 17,000 public school districts, explaining what government lawyers consider to be acceptable ways that educators can seek to reduce racial segregation, which has been increasing nationwide.
The two documents, issued as the presidential campaign heats up and as the Supreme Court considers whether to hear a new affirmative action case, were designed to give educators a clear administration interpretation of three high court cases that, since 2003, have limited the use of race in admissions, zoning and other school policies.
The contrast with the Bush guidelines interpreting the same three cases is stark. Where the Bush administration’s letter in 2008 states, “Quotas are impermissible,” the 2011 version says “an institution may permissibly aim to achieve a critical mass of underrepresented students.”
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Lattrell can’t read, but it is racist to deny him a college scholarship.
“residential instability..”
So kids from a stable, 2 parent family are discriminated against and get moved down the list. This stuff is insidious social engineering at its worst.
The new kkk. The Perpetual Pity Party.
What could the goal of all this possibly be?
More stuff for his people.
Just Photoshop them in, and declare victory.
Sounds all subjective. Hopefully kids that want to go to a particular school will game the system and “embellish” items such as “residential instability”.
Fire at least half of the faculty.
And yet the military is more diverse than any college, and I don’t hear a lot about them making it a top priority.
We’ll call it the PPP.
Where did you find that??? That is just freaky.
In Georgia there are many colleges that are almost 50% black. That status means they do not accurately reflect the diversity of the state...which is about 27% black.
So does this mean we can expect to see more White students at Grambling and Prairie View?
Our college campii already look like a Star Wars bar scene X10. Real freak shows. What the heck is the problem?
It’ll make a great rap song, I’m sure.
Sent us your poor and stupid; I’m sure they will become rich alumni that will endow your schools richly.
Read up on the Lamberth Decision or what is going on at Annapolis with regards to affimative action. It has been going on forever, especially as regards promotions to higher ranks and selections for command. There are many white colonels passed over because there will be a minimum number of the right groups selected at 0-7 and above. Of course, it is worse for females who are held to lower standards from the time they take their first PT test, but that’s another story.
I’m leaving UF to go there. I can’t wait for Freaknik!
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