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.
That’s true everywhere, from Oxford, to Johnson & Johnson.
I didn’t know Captain Obvious headed up a major university!
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?
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!)
Until recently, ethnic minorities weren't that large a part of Britain's population outside the big cities. That's changing.
If you don’t want to lower standards to let students in, don’t have any sports teams.
Of course affirmative action means lower standards. That fact has been known since the pernicious concept started being implemented in the 1960’s.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has written quite a bit on this.
Not only does AA do disservices to the rest of the students, it particularly harms those it is supposed to help.
First off, the drop-out rate for Black students is far greater than other students, simply because the students admitted to top schools due to AA usually aren’t prepared for the more rigorous academic requirements. Were they to go to colleges for which they were prepared, they may well have graduated and lived successful, productive lives.
Secondly, the exceptional Black students who do belong in top schools are tarred with a “not good enough to get in on their own” label.
Mark
By default it does because skin color overrides academic ability and performance.
Do you think Chris Patten consulted Captain Obvious before he released his statement?
If the secondary education system were to blame, then whites and Asians from inner-city schools would also have low scores. Do they? (Hint: No.)