Posted on 05/17/2016 4:29:29 PM PDT by blam
May 17, 2016
Abby Jackson
Responding to criticism about dismal diversity metrics, Chris Patten, the chancellor of the University of Oxford, disparaged the concept of racial quotas, as Quartz reported.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Patten said that quotas lower standards:
I am in favor of universities recognizing their responsibilities for promoting social inclusion. But I don’t think that if you want high-class universities, you should expect them to lower their standards in order to make up for some inadequacies in our secondary education system.
Nobody will explain to me how you can make a system of quotas work while retaining the highest admissions standards. Quotas must mean lower standards. There are better ways of addressing social inclusion at universities.
Patten's remarks blame high schools, rather than Oxford, for failing to prepare certain students for acceptance into prestigious universities.
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He's hedging his bet.
He knows the real root of the problem and it isn't the secondary education system.
Inadequacies in the secondary education system wouldn't account for the disparity in ability and admission scores between
the Affirmative Action crowd and regular admissions.
He knows it, we know it, the whole western world knows it.
Yeah, and the ideas that wrecked the high schools came from prestigious universities.
Of course it does. ...and now your fired.
Thank God someone in the academic workd still has cojones.
Havaaad, Yale, etc appear to have pajama boy clones at the top.
The secondary education system is being bogged down by the same social factors with which our dear liberals have bogged down nearly an entire race.
That’s true everywhere, from Oxford, to Johnson & Johnson.
I didn’t know Captain Obvious headed up a major university!
Yep, what you said. He deftly skirted the issue by pushing the issue onto the secondary schools, thereby allowing the assumption of equal talent distribution to continue.
I don’t care what the cause is, or what the excuse is, but deviation from meritocracy hurts us all.
The theory I read back in the day was that inferior students who graduated did just as well as qualified graduates. I ran into affirmative action graduates for the last third of my career. They got passed around quickly by program managers because for the most part they sucked a charge number dry while producing nothing useful. Often, they ended up on overhead jobs like the diversity council or some other liberal make-work job. My tactic for handling most of them was to sit for a friendly chat, then pull out my report and ask, “last week you charged forty hours to my number. What was it you did for me?” Sometimes they were flabbergasted that I even asked. But if they kept charging it I would check their card and stop by more frequently. Most of the time I could shame them in to sucking somebody else’s charge number. Once I was accused of racism and harassment. But after he complained and I’d been talked to by HR, they moved him to somebody else.
Having a best university is racist against crappy universities. Stop university privilege.
Isn’t that what Scalia or Thomas recently said in one of their decision, which created a liberal firestorm?
Actually, Harvard has Pajama GIRL clones at the top—equipped with vicious Feminazi ideology!!!!
Let’s Make Harvard Great Again!!!! Drew Gilpin-Faust, YOU’RE FIRED!!!!
our American universities have been infected with this racist admissions and grading policy since at least the 1960’s
you will find much more racism in university admissions offices (and amongst some of the faculties) than anywhere else in America, bar none (except maybe if you dare enter a mosque, but I sure wouldn’t recommend that!)
Heh! Well said.
This is the primary reason that the various "studies" programs exist in universities. The colleges are trying to make their numbers and need somewhere to dump the affirmative action cases, both faculty and students.
Until recently, ethnic minorities weren't that large a part of Britain's population outside the big cities. That's changing.
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