More Coerced Diversity in Higher Academia
You may have read the Inside Higher Ed article I linked to a few days ago, about how the American Bar Association's pressure on George Mason Law to accept more black students resulted in unbelievably high failures rates among those accepted at lower standards.
Inside Higher Ed has another excellent piece out, discussing how universities obsessed with an image of physical diversity are putting out viewbooks with pictures that are much more diverse than the schools' actual demographics. In some cases, they are even doctoring photos of white students to add minorities in them.
I wrote a column on this issue more than a year ago. Excerpt:
I decided to track the website of Cornell University, my alma mater... On one of my visits to the site, the pictures showed a total of eight students, all minorities, with seven of them being women. For reference purposes, Cornell is split down the middle gender-wise, with blacks making up five percent of the student population.
This quote from the Inside Higher Ed article says it all: “Sometimes you see the same black kid in every picture."
Paul Ibrahim
in Paul Ibrahim Columns, Race, Political Correctness, Academia, George Mason University, Cornell
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