Black Diverse Issues
It has been obvious for quite a while that “diversity” has, in academia, become a politically correct buzz word for “black.” The Journal of Black Issues in Higher Education, for just one example, recently changed its name to Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. The content, however, hasn’t noticeably changed. The current issue has an article [...]
Arizona: An Initiative Barring Consideration Of “Social Factors”?
Under a headline proclaiming (falsely) that “Initiative drive intend to bar governments from considering social factors in education,” The Arizona Daily Dispatch has a long news article today by Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services defending the use of racial and ethnic preference in law school admissions. At least, given its placement, I think it [...]
Shelby Steele On Obama … And Others
At and after a recent lecture in Toronto Shelby Steele had some interesting things to say about Obama … and others. … he believes Barack Obama will not win the Democratic nomination for the presidency, in large part because he is caught between pleasing blacks and whites and can never please all Americans at once…. [...]
Iowa Governor Decrees “Diversity”
As I’ve had occasion to quote many times, when both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson issued executive orders implementing affirmative action in the federal government (10925 and 11246), what they required was admirably principled and pristinely clear: agencies were to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, [...]
Oregon Responds To “Diversity” Critic: “Shhh”
Bill Harbaugh is a professor of economics at the University of Oregon. Several months ago I discussed (here) his criticisms of Oregon’s new “diversity” plan, which included large “incentives” given to departments to hire minority scholars. In his department, Harbaugh noted, the startup package for a new, nonminority faculty member in the economics department typically [...]
Group of 88 Leader Chastises Cosby
Karla FC Holloway, Professor of English and Law and African and African American Studies at Duke, is a prominent leader of the Group of 88 faculty group that convicted Duke lacrosse players in the court of its own opinion, and through them the white male racist sexist culture of Duke and the western world of [...]
Hypocrisy (Continued, And Continuing)
I have written several times (here and, most recently, here) about the hypocrisy of universities that piously proclaim through their mission statements that they are dedicated to the principle of treating everyone without regard to their race, ethnicity, or gender but whose affirmative action statements and policies flagrantly violate that principle. Of course I am [...]
“Diversity,” Visible And Invisible
Sometimes the diversinauts (diversinuts?) take things so far it begins to look like they are parodying themselves. A case in point is this document writing up the notes of a diversity committee meeting at the University of North Carolina – Ashville presided over by Chancellor Anne Ponder. (HatTip to George Leef of Phi Beta Cons, [...]
Noose-ance News
BBC News looks at “unravelling race relations in the US,” and sees nooses everywhere. Although there is one sensible quote — from the token appearance by one conservative, Mychal Massie, described as “the head of Project 21, a group of conservative African-Americans linked to a Washington-based think-tank, the tone of the article is best represented [...]
Towson U. Drops Preferential Admissions For Underrepresented Minority Students
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, citing this article from the Baltimore Sun, that Towson University in Maryland has dropped a controversial program that admitted underrepresented minority students with lower grades than the average of the entering classes because of a much higher attrition rate among those who were preferentially admitted. Oh, I almost forgot [...]
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