“In my first year of graduate school at Yale,” I began my recent “Short Take” on Minding the Campus,
back when the debate over admitting women to the college was still raging, a joke (or maybe it wasn’t) at that time was that the Old Yalies were perfectly willing for the college to go co-ed — so long as no male who would have been admitted in the absence of co-education was rejected … and the size of the entering class was not increased.
I was reminded of this resistance to co-education by a recent front-page story in The New York Times detailing an extraordinary measure the University of Michigan has taken to increase the “diversity” of its entering class.
You’ll have to read the whole piece to see why Michigan’s latest effort to restrict the admission of Asians and whites reminded me of the old joke about Yale going co-ed.
Just curious. How many “traditionally” (fill in the blank) institutions of Higher Education have enjoyed higher academic “status”, or demonstrably superior “placement”, due to a progressive diversification by “New Rules”?