Posted on 09/08/2018 7:56:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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
A Harvard University professor 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.
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“Professors” like this need to be driven into the wilderness with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
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Name misspelled.
Should be...
Warikoo-koo
“White students “stand in fear of being labeled a racist, “
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Uh,uh!
A white can be called a racist for a simple criticism of a black person.
No one cares anymore.
It has no more power than calling someone a jerk.
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What a pile of crap!
Isn’t the merit-based admission processes the supreme science of Darwin at work?
By natasha warikoo admitting the white student’s “intelligence advantage” she is disparaging students of color.
Within not too many years, institutions like Harvard will become superfluous, it will be easy for gifted young people to get everything they need from the internet, including community with other brilliant people.
The game will change against Harvard and other like institutions because they lose sight of what they’re really selling.
Another case of the wire thinking it’s a power plant.
Nonsense. Those clothes were made in sweatshops by slave labor. In the interest of equality and equity, they need to go into the wilderness naked.
When is the good professor going to give up her tenured position for some more deserving soul?
Inquiring minds want to know .....
IF this idiot professor had lived when Edison was around, she would be complaining that Edison is ‘putting candle makers & kerosene lamp makers out of business’.
I would never be able to put any kids of mine into a college today. It would be a punishment against my kid, and a waste of my hard earned money.
“In the interest of equality and equity, they need to go into the wilderness naked.”
Excellent point. Thanks for the correction.
Naked it is then.
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Is a Warikoo a type of Toucan?
By removing "meritocracy" from Harvard and other liberal universities, they are dooming Harvard et al to "mediocrity."
When Harvard produces nothing but mediocre grads, their franchise is dead.
As an aside, university programs in business and the sciences/engineering, etc. (STEM) do not seem to be participating in this academic suicide...only the humanities and soft science programs are affected.
Have you ever noticed how many wacky ideas arise from schools of education? Think about new math for one.
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,”
She conveniently ignores the fact that “diversity programs” are racist.
Some type of Middle Easterner, I’d guess, based on a couple of minutes of superficial research.....
This country would still be grinding corn by hand & harvesting wheat by hand in sheaves if it wasn’t for the ‘self interest’ of people like John Deere & Cyrus McCormick.
How & Why people such as this “professor’ can collect a payckeck is beyond me.
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