College admissions examined

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=5&u=/usatoday/20040324/ts_usatoday/collegeadmissionsexamined

Three national groups critical of affirmative action are invoking state open-records laws to demand that public universities disclose whether and how race and ethnicity are considered in admissions decisions.


Organizers of the effort said Tuesday that they have contacted presidents of selective public universities in 20 states asking for detailed admissions information, such as the extent to which an applicant's race or ethnicity factors into decisions, and whether targets or quotas have been set for certain racial or ethnic groups. They plan to extend the inquiries to universities in most, if not all, states.


One goal is to ensure that universities comply with a Supreme Court ruling last summer in a case involving the University of Michigan, says Bradford Wilson, executive director of the National Association of Scholars in Princeton, N.J., whose members are making the requests. Also, he says, taxpayers "have every right to know precisely how applicants are being treated" by public institutions.
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1. From the article

Three national groups critical of affirmative action are invoking state open-records laws to demand that public universities disclose whether and how race and ethnicity are considered in admissions decisions.


Organizers of the effort said Tuesday that they have contacted presidents of selective public universities in 20 states asking for detailed admissions information, such as the extent to which an applicant's race or ethnicity factors into decisions, and whether targets or quotas have been set for certain racial or ethnic groups. They plan to extend the inquiries to universities in most, if not all, states.


One goal is to ensure that universities comply with a Supreme Court ruling last summer in a case involving the University of Michigan, says Bradford Wilson, executive director of the National Association of Scholars in Princeton, N.J., whose members are making the requests. Also, he says, taxpayers "have every right to know precisely how applicants are being treated" by public institutions.


So far, universities that have responded say the requests are too broad. An official at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wrote in a letter that the request is "unduly burdensome." Lewis Morrissey, freedom of information officer at the University of Michigan, said the request does not describe a "public record sufficiently to enable the public body to find the public record."

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2. While we are on the subject......

"Also, he says, taxpayers "have every right to know precisely how applicants are being treated" by public institutions."

Taxpayers have a right to know how all our taxpayer money is being spent. So let's start with an accounting of all the money that has been spent in Iraq. Next we would like to take a look at the Pentagon's books see if we can find some of that 3 trillion dollars that is missing. What do you think?

[DulceDecorum]

3. The Good Old Days

when minority-rule was the way to go and a state like Virgina could strilize the unwanted population at will and shut down its entire education system rather than permit unwanteds to attend a single class.

Ahh, the Good Old Days ---- ARE COMING BACK.

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4. Keep in mind that the National Association of Scholars

is nothing but another bunch of RW hacks trying to weed out liberals in the academy. They have fought against everything from affirmative action -- in both hiring and admissions -- to the inclusion of works by people of color and women and non-Westerners in liberal arts curricula.