I have written a number of times that “diversity is un-American,” i.e., about the awkward fact that a significantly high number of the beneficiaries of racial preference are foreigners. (See here, here, here, and here.)
Now, thanks to a pointer to this article from a reader, it appears that foreign blacks are not the only beneficiaries of our racial preference policies; foreign whites are, too.
JACKSON – Jackson State University and Mississippi Valley State University must work harder with enticements of scholarships, new academic programs and better facilities to attract more other-race students, the universities’ officials say.
Both historically black universities are trying to bring their non-black enrollments to at least 10 percent for three consecutive years to tap into millions more in funds from the settlement of a higher education desegregation lawsuit.
Alcorn State University already has reached the 10 percent goal over four consecutive years.
Scholarships, stronger recruitment and new programs attracted dozens of students from Russia, Canada, Latin America and other lands to Alcorn. Thirty students are from Russia alone.
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At stake are portions of the $35 million private endowment fund shared by Mississippi’s three historically black universities from the Ayers lawsuit settlement.
The settlement decree stipulates that 28.3 percent each of the endowment goes to Alcorn and Valley and 43.4 percent to the larger JSU. Alcorn received $283,000 in fiscal 2006, but so far neither JSU nor Valley has qualified for a cut.
The settlement of the case by the parties in 2001 put an end to litigation that began in 1975 when Jake Ayers Jr. filed suit with a group of other students, accusing Mississippi of operating an unequal system of higher education, one for black students, and another for white students.
“The Ayers settlement is an important component of the state’s commitment to educational quality and access at our historically black institutions,” Mississippi Higher Education Commissioner Tom Meredith said.
The settlement brought attractive new academic programs and provided new facilities and scholarships at the three institutions.
But much more is needed to attract a more diverse student body to Jackson State, said Jiaunhua Wu, a research associate with the JSU physics department and native of China.
“In China, few people know Jackson State University,” he said.
Lucas Rolandi, 26, a JSU senior and a business administration major, is in the minority as a native of Argentina. He said he believes he is getting a good education here. The former Hinds Community College soccer player is on a full scholarship at JSU. Similar financial incentives would attract more other-race students to campus, Rolandi said.
Such scholarships are snapped up quickly, Graves said. She estimates $110,000 is available in diversity scholarships, primarily to cover tuition. It costs about $12,000 annually to attend JSU, covering tuition, books, room and board and other expenses.
Former Mississippi Valley State Faculty Senate President Sam McNair said his school also is trying to become more diverse, but it will take time.
“I’ve seen the change from totally black,” McNair said. A 1975 Mississippi Valley graduate who teaches industrial technology, he said recruitment of white university employees like Delta Devils baseball coach Doug Shanks is making a difference.
“We always like to make jokes that he and I are brothers,” he said. “If we get to the 10 percent, it will be like hitting the jackpot.”
But is the expensive production of “diversity” at Jackson State, Alcorn, and Mississippi Valley State by subsidizing the importing of Russians, Chinese, and Argentineans really a “jackpot,” or a perfect, crackpot example of a national civil rights policy gone completely bonkers?
I believe it was Jackson State whose women’s golf team was half Australian back in the 1990s — Title IX mandated that Jackson State have a women’s golf team but practically no young black women play golf (although I’ve noticed a few more young black women at the driving range in the last few years), so the school had to give full scholarships to Australian girl golfers to round out the team.
Come on tell the truth the White European-American Federal Judges will not finance the Historically Black Colleges unless the enrollment has at least 10% White European – But the University of Mississippi is not under the same mandate of 10% Black Afrikan enrollment – Why not? Racism against Black Afrikans!