Less than a month ago I pointed, here, to a post by Kimberly Swygert about a lawsuit in which a black policeman complained that he was given a plum assignment because he was black.
Now Chetly Zarko cites and discusses a fascinating article about a potentially important complaint that has just been filed by a group of black graduate engineering students against — you have to love this! — the University of Michigan. The article begins:
A group of black students at the University of Michigan has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights claiming that African-American students are recruited to graduate and undergraduate programs at the university to inflate enrollment numbers but are not given enough academic counseling or financial support to allow them to graduate.
Black graduate students are abused and demoralized, told they are not PhD material and advised that their best option is to leave after completing master’s level requirements, the 13 students, known as the Coalition for Action Against Racism and Discrimination say in the complaint.
Remember Richard Sander’s “mismatch” argument, that racial preferences actually reduce the number of black lawyers? (If not, search for “Sander” on this site; his argument has been discussed here too many times to cite.)
