Surprise: University Of Michigan Offers Non-Discriminatory Aid!
The University of Michigan is launching a new financial aid program to aid low-income students. Race, apparently, will not be one of the factors considered in determining recipients. I don’t know whether I’m more struck by the goodness of this news or the sadness that a non-discriminatory policy from a major university is news.
Gay Rights: Equal Or “Special”?
Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois has signed a gay rights bill. The new law adds sexual orientation to the classes of people protected by the state’s Human Rights Act. It defines sexual orientation as actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, or gender-related identity, whether or not traditionally associated with the person’s designated sex at birth. […]
The Emergence Of A New Minority
“Female students have gone from being a minority to a majority of undergraduate enrollments in the United States over the last generation,” the Chronicle of Higher Education reports today. The report, which draws on data from government agencies and several continuing studies of high-school and college students, also says that the trends are more apparent […]
Affirmative Action As Non-Sequitur
Vontilla Steven, a student at the University of Miami, is tired of hearing people write about how affirmative action is an unfair endeavor maintained to accept unqualified black people while leaving white people out in the cold, leading to “reverse discrimination.” This argument would be valid if we lived in an equal society. Why? That […]
Holy Toledo!
Here are a few highlights (or lowlights) from another example of how affirmative action is understood and portrayed across America, this one from a recent “Black Bag Lecturer series, attended by a 24-person crowd comprised of students, faculty and staff,” at the University of Toledo. Racism still exists, and in some cases, even flourishes in […]
Stigma?
Critics of racial preference often assert that it stigmatizes minorities, an assertion that preferentialists dispute … except, on occasion, when it is not being debated. Thus an article in the (Berkeley) Daily Californian on the plight of black faculty at Berkeley contains the following: Professor Percy Hintzen joined the UC Berkeley African American Studies department […]
The Banality Of Preference
Maybe I’ve been reading this stuff too long, but I find this report of a Central Michigan University conference fascinating, revealing, and depressing. The most noteworthy thing about it is … that it’s so un-noteworthy, commonplace, even banal. It’s just like hundreds, maybe thousands, of similar meetings that are now, alas, a part of contemporary […]
Prison v. College II
One of the many problems with Grutter is that, far from putting racial preference behind us, or even putting it on the road to being behind us, it simply added many items to the to-do lists of professional diversifiers. One of them is Jonathan Alger, now vice president and general counsel at Rutgers but who, […]
More Deanly Diatribes
More Deanly Diatribes Unfortunately I have have had numerous occasions to point to racially abusive and abrasive language from the University of Virginia’s Dean of All Things Black (my title), M. Rick Turner — most recently here and here. I noted in an earlier post that he labeled everyone who criticized Charlottesville school superintendent Scottie […]
Prison v. College: The Supremes Dig Themselves Into A Deeper Hole
Unfortunately, the Supremes have proved themselves incapable of, among other things, following the common sense advice, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.” By a 5
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