Hot News! Merit-Based Aid Produces More Bright Students! Too Bad….
Who’d a thunk? Well, those doubters among you, a new study has found that “the adoption of merit aid by private colleges may achieve something for colleges that care about SAT averages.” Really? Positively? Yes, “[o]ver all [sic], SAT medians go up after the introduction of merit aid.” Good news, right? Wrong. In fact, if […]
Surprise! Civil Rights Leader Supports “Equal Opportunity”
Inside Higher Ed reports today that a gathering of “scholars and activists” who met yesterday at the Howard University Law School sang the praises of Google’s ambitions book digitization project. Here at the historically black university, panel members applauded Google’s plan to scan and index 10 million books for the Web. Among those who will […]
New Haven Firemen May Help Extinguish Smoldering University Discrimination
My title is a bad take off on Roger Clegg’s more eloquent Dousing the Fires of Racial Discrimination, in which he argues persuasively that Ricci v. DeStefano poses a substantial threat to standard “diversity” hiring discrimination practiced by universities. Colleges and universities sometimes conduct a search to fill a faculty opening but then decline to […]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. And His Dirty Inkwell
Inside Higher Ed summarizes and links to a devastating report on the Inkwell Foundation, created by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in ProPublica (“journalism in the public interest”). Inkwell, ProPublica reports, [a]charity headed by star Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. [,] is filing an amended 2007 report to the Internal Revenue Service because $11,000 […]
Is Your Health Care Culturally Incompetent?
If so, don’t worry. Help may be on the way. HR3200, the health care reform bill introduced in the House, provides, in two places, for the “COORDINATION OF DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY PROGRAMS.” It provides “CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCY TRAINING FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.” A culturally competent workforce, of course, must be a diverse workforce, […]
Two Three Four Five Five And A Half Six And A Half Quick Thoughts On Gates – Crowley
NOTE: No. 2 has been UPDATED 1. Of all the things that reasonable people can say about the confrontation between Sgt. Crowley and Prof. Gates, racial profiling is not one of them. The police responded to a report of a break-in at Prof. Gates’ home; no profiling was involved. It’s possible that Sgt. Crowley did […]
Wanted: More WIS (Women In Science)
There they go again, falling ass over teakettle into the gender gap in science. WASHINGTON — The landscape of scientists and engineers is certainly a lot more diverse than it was 20 years ago, but serious gender gaps remain. That was the consensus here at a hearing of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s […]
The Availability Of Funds
I bought my first house way back when Jimmy Carter was president. As I recall interest rates were around 20%, and so I came up with the bright idea of leaving the cash I needed for the down payment in an interest bearing account until the last possible minute. My plan, brilliant in theory if […]
Sotomayor: 14th Amendment Requires Affirmative Action!
On Saturday Carol Iannone pointed to a revealing exchange between Sen. Kohl (D-Wis) and Judge Sotomayor. From the transcript: SEN. KOHL: …. I’d like to ask you questions about a few issues that have generated much discussion. First, affirmative action. Judge, first I’d like to discuss the issue of affirmative action. We can all agree […]
A Buchanan-Like Dump On Affirmative Action Critics
It’s been several months since I’ve been provoked enough to criticize one of the offerings of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s designated “diversity” hitter, Penn anthropologist John L. Jackson, Jr. (here, which links here, another example that cites five earlier examples). Jackson writes today that he watched “the Sotomayor confirmation hearings pretty faithfully” (a perfectly […]
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