Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So administrators should now feel free to reject the mediocre white boys on their merits, instead of giving them an advantage based on their race. Finally! The Asian kids and black women are going to LOVE this!
Maybe don't ask for race or gender on applications.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is beyond getting rid of affirmative action. They are talking about ANY student activities related to race/DEI. No Asian or AA student unions. AA frats or sororities? What about women’s organizations? This is stupid.
You don’t need any of those things. Just be inclusive to everyone.
Anonymous wrote:It squelching freedom of association and assembly. Kinda authoritarian, and definitely contrary to the first amendment.
Anonymous wrote:So administrators should now feel free to reject the mediocre white boys on their merits, instead of giving them an advantage based on their race. Finally! The Asian kids and black women are going to LOVE this!
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone posted on this yet?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/education-dept-race-based-programs.html
"The Education Department warned schools in a letter on Friday that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions, or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”
I don't even know where to begin...I feel like I'm in that Harry Potter movie where the Ministry of Magic keeps issuing inane decrees
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My take—
Public universities: blind as to demographics
Private universities: should have to publish their acceptance methods publicly; and follow them.
In other words, I think private universities, being private, should be able to design their acceptance policies along the lines they choose. But to mitigate it being imbalanced/unfair/utterly discriminatory, they should at least have to state their plan.
Anonymous wrote:My take—
Public universities: blind as to demographics
Private universities: should have to publish their acceptance methods publicly; and follow them.
Anonymous wrote:This is beyond getting rid of affirmative action. They are talking about ANY student activities related to race/DEI. No Asian or AA student unions. AA frats or sororities? What about women’s organizations? This is stupid.
Anonymous wrote:This is beyond getting rid of affirmative action. They are talking about ANY student activities related to race/DEI. No Asian or AA student unions. AA frats or sororities? What about women’s organizations? This is stupid.