Is There A Ford In Your Future?
The New York Times has an interesting article today about Rep. Harold Ford (D, Tenn) and his prospects of being elected the next Senator from Tennessee. Ford is trying as hard as he can to run away from the liberal label. I’d love to see reporters and editorial writers and, later, the eventual Republican nominee […]
Minority Graduation Rate Redux
I’ve written before (here, here, and here, for example) about how even accurate statistics about minority graduation rates can be misleading. I don’t like repeating myself (well, maybe I do, but I generally try to avoid doing so), but since the same old statistics continue to be touted I feel justified now in doing so. […]
Ironic Quote Of The Week
Oregon State University women’s basketball coach LaVonda Wagner (who’s black): I’m all for equal opportunity, but I want the best person to get the job. Note the sad but true implication that these days “equal opportunity” suggests that the best people don’t get the job. Chalk that up as another result of the abandonment of […]
The Dark Secret Of Racial Preferences
Perhaps the darkest secret of racial preferences is that they are a dark secret, as U.S. Commission on Civil Rights commissioner Peter Kirsanow discovered when he sent out a questionnaire to determine the nature and extent of racial preference on 40 campuses and received no replies.
Why Doesn’t Someone Propose …
1. Urging Congress to amend its civil rights legislation to exclude recent immigrants (legal or illegal) from receiving preferential treatement in employment or college admisions. 2. Declaring that all illegal immigrants will be regarded as residents of the District of Columbia, since they arrived here and remain here as a result of the federal government […]
Title IX: Forcing Women Onto The Playing Field…
No, not athletic playing fields but in the field of science. Several months go I discussed (here) a new effort to use Title IX to bring about the hiring and promotion of more women scientists. As a reader reminds me by sending a link to this article by Richard Zare, a Stanford chemistry professor, they’re […]
Propaganda In Academia
Erin O’Connor has several terrific posts (here, here, and here) about politicized propaganda posing as academic courses academic departments being reduced to nests of advocacy. Read them all.
Holy Toledo!
Toledo’s Office of Affirmative Action is proposing a new method of avoiding the controversy and divisiveness associated with “affirmative action”: change the name. The concept of affirmative action has become controversial, and now a plan to call it something else also is attracting some controversy. The city’s Office of Affirmative Action is proposing that its […]
Grutter Clutter II
Yesterday I wrote (here) about a new policy in Wisconsin that requires all state universities to consider the race of all applicants (in a “holistic” manner, of course), a change in policy that was said to be the result of the Grutter decision, which itself allowed but did not require institutions to consider race. It […]
We Are Not Alone…
If I’m not mistaken, no Indians (as opposed to Native Americans) benefit from affirmative action in the United States, not even if they are from “the backward classes.” India itself, however, practices “affirmative action” on its own, though it doesn’t seem to be afflicted by the smokescreen of “diversity.” Much of India has been paralyzed […]
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