A New Twist On Equality Of Opportunity
Baron Davis, a point guard on the Golden States Warriors, is a former basketball star at UCLA who is worried about the decline in the number of black students at his alma mater and with former UCLA football player Brendon Ayanbadejo has started a new organization to do something about it, according to this article [...]
Why Should Racial Preferences Be Eliminated In A State That Rarely Uses Them?
That’s an interesting question that is implicit, or perhaps even explicit, in a thoughtful article just published in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Argus Leader. After noting that Ward Connerly’s American Civil Rights Coalition, which spearheaded the successful effort to eliminate racial preferences in California, Washington, and Michigan, may have targeted South Dakota along with [...]
UPDATE
Now that I have had time to read the College Board report that offers some (bad) strategic advice to colleges on how to defeat upcoming state initiatives that, like the one in Michigan, would ban racial preferences, I have added some additional comments to my post below, and also added some better ones by Roger [...]
Preferences Harm “Beneficiaries ”
So, dog bites man; what’s new? What’s new is a new study by Princeton researchers, reported this morning in the Chronicle of Higher Edudcation, that purports to find that legacies are more harmed by the preferences they receive than either athletes, on one hand, or blacks and Hispanics on the other. The article, “Children of [...]
College Board Urges Colleges To “ Gird For Fight” On Affirmative Action
The news blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that the College Board has issued a paper “urging higher-education institutions to prepare in advance to fight state ballot measures prohibiting the consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions.” The paper, which can be found here, asks, among other things, “What Strategies Might Be [...]
Special Aid For Muslim Students?
See this report on the Chronicle of Higher Education news blog of a Canadian report calling for special concern for Muslim students. Be sure to read the comments as well.
A New Generation Of Conservative Leadership: Jennifer Gratz
Kathryn Jean Lopez has a wonderful, and much deserved, tribute to Jennifer Gratz in National Review. I’m not quoting; read the whole thing.
Defining Deviancy Down / Defining Civil Rights Up
In a 1993 article in The American Scholar, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave us one of the most memorable phrases of the last generation: “defining deviancy down,” which referred to the seemingly inexorably process of standards of acceptable behavior sinking lower and lower — what was deviant yesterday becomes normal today. One can see a [...]
Racial Preference In South Africa: “To BEE Or Not To BEE”
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a key part of South Africa’s massive affirmative action effort. Since 1994, South Africa has embarked in a process aimed at empowering groups that had been negatively affected by the previous system of apartheid. This process is known as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). The concept of BEE emerged in the [...]
Affirmative Action Whistleblower Vindicated
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today: The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld a jury verdict that awarded $455,000 in back pay and compensatory damages to a former assistant professor of engineering who sued Brown University after he was denied tenure in 1993. Fred Shoucair argued Brown retaliated after he complained about interviewing a [...]
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