Posted on 10/08/2015 11:03:33 PM PDT by 100American
The 2015 academic year opened with protests against two Ivy League universities with campuses featuring buildings named for long-dead, white, southern, and racist politicians—but only one of the protests is getting any attention so far.
At Yale, the school year began with a demand from students and some alumni that the university change the name of Calhoun College, a residential college named for John C. Calhoun, an antebellum slaveholder, ardent proponent of slavery, and longtime federal officeholder. According to an online petition that circulated over the summer, the murders of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina required the removal of “symbols of white supremacy” from all institutions. The petition garnered coverage from the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and USA Today, among others. On September 11, the New York Times reported on a “growing chorus of students, alumni and faculty” demanding a name change.
Around the same time, a student group at Princeton called the Black Justice League began to lobby for the removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name—which adorns a residential college as well as the university’s graduate school of public policy—because of Wilson’s support of segregation. In a September 28 op-ed in the Daily Princetonian, the petitioners—like their Yale counterparts—invoked the Charleston massacre as a reason to “stand up against or acknowledge the wrongdoings of a man who proudly branded himself a racist and segregationist.”
Unlike the Yale petition, the Princeton campaign against Wilson has gained little traction and has received no national media attention. Why? The answer surely has something to do with the fact that Wilson, the founder of the modern Democratic Party, is a progressive icon, while Calhoun is reviled as a proto-conservative.
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Why name university buildings after American politicians?
We should do as a farmer friend of mine does, who names all his male pigs after pagans in the old testament.
I wonder how many of these blacks would be attending Ivy League universities if they were held to the same standards as whites. And didn’t get a full scholarship because of their skin color.
Politicians Love Memorials, then folks can walk up and say oh Look what Senator XXX did...
Ok, sounds pretty selfless like Public Service is purported to be, right??
Sure
True point, I have another research article that shows how much they struggle in college because they were ill prepared coming out of HS for what College really meant they had to do, not the baby sitting they got in Grade and High school, it is a real culture shock that for instance the “thug” mentality does not, or does play on campus...
At the end assimilation especially into Higher Education remains a challenge for them
Don’t worry they will sell the naming rights to some rich alumnus.
These ‘students’ are an embarrassment and a national disgrace.
And they will have all the debt and even less chance to pay it off...
Now they are angry, they were lied to by somebody, college is not like Public School where your hide in a chair is income for them, nothing more. No one gets fired if you or others fail to learn, the Teacher is never at fault...
Called ADA, I think it means Average Daily Allowance, essentially it is how much per kid per day
I thought a few years ago that the tide would turn on affirmative action as it became crystal clear that it was very damaging to the “beneficiaries” in the long term. In fact, it has gone the opposite way; there is more push than ever to give out unearned high school diplomas, college degrees, jobs and promotions to preferred minorities (and it isn’t even being done discreetly). It probably relates to the fact that hordes of non-English speaking immigrants washing up daily are quickly leaving some people in the dust...
Anyone in those preferred groups is suspicious in terms of competence, and the suspicion is usually justified.
I guess we will have to get rid of this item! It is a monument to a Southerner!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_H._Janney
Wilson was scum, barely deserving of spit for his grave.
It’s about time the truth about DemoRAT history comes to light.
Also, Calhoun had talked about using the "Tariff Act" as a test for any future secession activity if slavery was endangered, but it wasn't at the time because the DemoRATS had all three branches of the federal government behind them (i.e., Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, etc.) until 1860.
Correct, excellent post
Thank You!
Not so much at the Ivies. Especially Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. These schools have very high graduation rates, of which the schools are rightfully very protective. They only take kids who are able to graduate. As well, these schools provide need-based financial aid only. No scholarships. But the aid for middle class families is usually enough that students don’t need to take out loans.
Nonetheless, students are expected to contribute to their tuition by working an average of 10 hours per week during the school year. Some students find their academics to be too overwhelming to accommodate work at the same time. So these schools will provide their own loans to students who don’t want to work in a given semester.
The average Harvard student graduates with $12000 in loans. Many students graduate debt-free. My older son will be graduating debt-free from Harvard this May. My younger son plans to follow debt-free in May 2018.
Excelleny points..
I was asked to develop and education model for teaching Chinese advanced business level English and Create a new model for training and retaining employees in call centers for China Teelcom it blossomed into a larger project of an alternative to Confucian model in place as a first step like our K-12 and hard cuts the opportunities for many based on scores
The primary aspect of the higher education component was the integration of Hiring companies with the students in school so they get the Education and experience while getting a running start at integrating into a career post graduation...
When you have 15 or 16 kids applying for every seat, you can afford to be picky. As an example, Harvard had around 35,000 kids apply for less than 1700 freshman seats. With a yield of over 80% of accepted students, Harvard can accept only about 2000 of those 35000. Yet, probably 10,000 or more of those students are fully qualified to succeed at Harvard. So, even among less-qualified sub-populations, there are plenty of fully-qualified candidates, because of the overabundance of qualified candidates generally.
Totally Understand, My Daughter graduated from USC (University Of Southern California - Private College) in 4 Years with a Major and Minor degree...
Abut the same number of seats and 50000 plus apply yearly, they can and are very selective
In 2015, USC had about 50,000 applicants, admitted about 9,000, (about 18%) and had a yield of about 3,200 (a yield of over 33%). The most selective school in California is Stanford, at about 5% of applicants. In recent years, Stanford has become as selective as Harvard, and has actually been a little more selective than Harvard in some years.
College admissions at the top tiers has become ever more selective. Even a school like University of Maryland, College Park, about 50th or 6th in the nation, and once known as a party school, now rejects more than half its applicants.
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