[Pharmboy]

A rare moment of clarity and truth from the Paper of Record's Op-Ed liberal steamroller. Good info here for Freepers.

[jamndad5]

Diversity is Perversity!

[motzman]

One cannot help but wonder why the public and private views of higher education's leadership differ so greatly. It would be useful to have some good studies of that question.

C'mon Stanley, you know the answer...

Say it!

SAY IT!

/samkinnison

[JeeperFreeper]

One of the editorial board's kids must have been rejected by a school. Still I'll be on the lookout for pigs in the sky today.

[Drango]

One cannot help but wonder why the public and private views of higher education's leadership differ so greatly.

One cannot help but wonder why the NY Times views of higher education's leadership differ so greatly from the rest of the country.

[Cicero]

For the record, I believe that Stanley Rothman is one of the good guys, a puncturer of the windbags of political correctness.

Here's the title of one of his latest books, which attacks the judicial activism of the liberal courts:

The Least Dangerous Branch? Consequences of Judicial Activism, by Stephen P. Powers and Stanley Rothman. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002.

[FITZ]

The study's findings show that college diversity programs fail to raise standards,

Diversity programs intentionally lower standards.

[Hacksaw]

Diversity is almost becoming like 1984's INGSOC. Nobody can be against it, but to intelectually think about it leads to thoughtcrime.

[Spyder]

My daughter (who has the highest GPA in her private school junior class) has been getting at least daily mailings from well-known colleges as well as many we haven't heard of. We immediately toss the ones that emphasize diversity over learning - I think the Wellesley (sp?) one was the worst. It's almost like looking at an Onion satire some are so bad - the aforementioned Wellesley flyer had photos of just about every "type" except blondes, though it was hard to tell if the crew-cutted dyke type had blonde hair or not.

We were hoping to find a West Coast school for her (cheaper flights home at least) but so far her searches for architecture programs on that coast are way left of anything we'd consider (one school, UCLA I think, emphasized their bringing a "political" view to the field, and I don't think they meant our brand of politics).

[Nick Danger]

One cannot help but wonder why the public and private views of higher education's leadership differ so greatly.

Quite obviously they are living in an environment where they feel intimidated. They do not believe that it is safe to express their actual views. It is the same thing we see in Basra, where the effect is caused by armed thugs who will publicly execute anyone who speaks truth to Saddam.

There is a dictatorship in place in academia. It is as ruthless and destructive as Saddam Hussein. It should be; both are Stalinist in origin and composition. Both students and faculty are afraid of it. It enforces its dictates with economic violence, public humiliation, and menacing mobs.

This is called "academic freedom." It is not any kind of freedom the rest of us would want. But it is a foretaste of what will happen to all of us if the grip of the cultural left is not removed from our institutions.

[Consort]

In Diversity there is stench.

[McGavin999]

Forty years after we decided that the content of a persons character is more important than the color of a persons skin, we are still discussing this. Preferrences and set asides have not helped, they've hurt.

Look at the difference in the level of achievement of black conservatives as opposed to black liberals. Black conservatives consider themselves Americans first and are systematically working and achieving the American dream. Black liberals are demanding special favors, government handouts and preferrences and (except for the poverty pimps) are still locked in want.

That should tell us all we need to know.

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[dark_lord]

To find out, in 1999 we surveyed a random sample of more than 1,600 students and 2,400 faculty members and administrators at 140 American colleges and universities, asking them to evaluate the quality of education at their institution, the academic preparation and work habits of the student body, the state of race relations on campus and their own experiences of discrimination. Then we correlated their responses with the proportion of black students attending each institution, based on government statistics.

And the problem is revealed -- "diversity" is a code word for "black".

My personal perspective from the military, university, and business is that diversity overall is a very good thing - as long as diversity is understood as having a mixture of ethnic groups, "races", religions, geographical origins, and gender. Having worked with teams composed of hispanics from the southwest, "mountain people" from the kentucky hills, mormons, pakis, Indians, cowboys (goat-ropers), etcetera -- I can tell you that a diverse team is a strong team. So I have no objections to true diversity -- it is a lot of fun.

[Michael2001]

If we're all equal, why would racial diversity increase education?

[Henrietta]

"A higher level of diversity is associated with somewhat less educational satisfaction and worse race relations among students."

Well, that seems obvious. When you have a critical mass of people on campus obsessed with nurturing a permanent racial grievance, race relations are going to be worse. And they're going to bitch until things are dumbed down enough so that they can get grades commensurate with what they think they deserve.

[CGTRWK]

Diversity has come to mean forced proximity with bitter seperatists whose goal usually seeems to be shocking and offending the mainstream to show off how different they are. Noone needs a study to figure out that this is hardly beneficial to people around them.

If this kind of diversity were a good thing, it wouldn't need to be forced on people without discussion.

[tiki]

If diversity and forced equality worked there would be no racial strife in America.

[Lancey Howard]

Even a blind squirrel occasionally stumbles across an acorn. This reminds me of that Newsweak issue where the magazine was stunned to discover that men and women are.... different!

Nevertheless, this author is bound to be called on the carpet by the higher ups who are no doubt already getting inundated with emails of outrage followed by stern warnings from the education mafia and its Democrat soldiers.