Posts Tagged ‘Affirmative Action’
Obama administration in favor of affirmative action, »
Today in backwards progress, the Obama administration has issued a guidance asserting the importance of affirmative action in education, including college admissions decisions. The guidance is a reversal in White House policy from a 2008 letter issued by President Bush that called admissions decisions based on race "highly suspect" and noted [...]
White Privilege? Not so much »
The Student Free Press ran a story the other day highlighting the spread of "White Privilege" posters around the Stanford campus. The full post with pictures can be found here, but one in particular caught our attention (the one on the right), given the recent media furor surrounding the passage of Prop 107 : So what exactly is the point [...]
A Post Prop 107 World- Part 2 »
Prior to the election, Prop 107's detractors released a list of several programs whose existence would be under threat if the amendment were to pass. Well, it did pass. The question now is whether ASA's hepatoscopic auguries will come to fruition. After a cursory analysis of the programs listed, however, it quickly becomes clear that the grim [...]
A Post Prop 107 World- Part 1 »
The dust has settled and the verdict is clear. Though wavering in their support for medical Mary Jane, Arizonans were emphatic in their support of the Civil Rights Amendment. Indeed, according to exit polls, 99.9% of "yes" voters attributed their support to THIS VERY BLOG'S endorsement. Fancy that! But really, how will things change now that [...]
SES-based affirmative action works »
Nobody - t0 my knowledge - has come forward and openly critiqued this site's proposal to shift from race-based affirmative action to a socioeconomic-status-based affirmative action, where preferences are given to the poor rather than the "historically discriminated."* Anyways, the UA has a program designed for poorer students called Arizona [...]
How ASA, ASUA, and ABOR worked to preserve »
As part of its website overhaul at the beginning of this academic year, the Arizona Students Association included a section of "Resources." Along with the fee refund form and governing documents, the site also includes its meeting minutes, dating back to August 2008. In spite of the meetings' propensity to go into executive session (which [...]
U. Michigan accepts more minority applicants, but no »
On the heels of Connerly's impending visit to the UA, Inside Higher Ed cites a story that will send groups like BAMN (still bizarre) into a tizzy: While the University of Michigan saw record numbers of applications and enrolled students this year, it also saw an 11 percent drop in the number of black, Latino and Native American freshmen, The [...]
Ward Connerly to visit the UA »
The press release, courtesy of the Arizona Association of Scholars: For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 What: Ward Connerly speaks about the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative When: Wednesday, October 28; 4-5:30 PM Where: Holsclaw Hall, UA School of Music building, southeast corner of Park and Speedway Cost/Admission: Free Presented by [...]
Pima County Young Republicans support affirmative »
The file labeled "GOP FAIL" is bursting at the seams, but this epic intellectual ineptitude needs to be preserved for posterity: Mike Cole, chairman of the Pima County Young Republicans, said the numbers are proof of the university’s liberal bias.“The students are getting indoctrinated by their liberal professors,” Cole said. Cole said he [...]
Quotas Without Solace »
Via UANews (which started its daily updates a full week and a half before school started), it appears that identity politics continue through the doctoral level: A new report says that The University of Arizona is one of the leading universities in the country when it comes to granting doctoral degrees to Hispanic and Native American students. . [...]
Are legacy admissions unconstitutional? »
An article from Inside Higher Ed discusses two law articles that make the legal case against legacy admissions. The first article focuses on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, targeted against the former slave-owner aristocracy of the South, while the second uses the nobility clause of the constitution: Because his paper focuses on titles of nobility [...]
Racism at UA and ASU Law Schools? »
Troubling allegations via the Chronicle of Higher Ed: The Center for Equal Opportunity plans to issue today a report accusing the law schools of both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona of systematically rejecting white, Asian, and Hispanic applicants in favor of black applicants with substantially lower grade-point averages [...]