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2011-02-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

Race Discrimination At Ohio State and Miami University

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-02-20 02:42|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Other factors are also most certainly in play here. Dropout rates were not mentioned, nor were college and government financial grants, degrees and actual studies undertaken. Obviously the more students through the front door the more likely you'll manage to have a few make it to the graduation exericse. Two things make the world go around, and the other one is money!

Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-20 05:50|| 2011-02-20 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, this can't be happening. There is racial discrimination in major universities? Who would have known?

Such discrimination has been prevalent for many years. University have departments set up for to insure diversity training, student recruitment, and faculty recruitment. Considerable resources are expended searching for minorities to fill faculty slots. Minority means African-American. In some instances there are few or no minority candidates to fill faculty slots. The search for minorities must be done nonetheless and documented before anyone can be hired. There are active programs to recruit black students into engineering. This is a tougher task than recruiting black students into athletic programs. The high schools are not doing a good job of preparing students in the basics.

As Besoeker said, much of this is about Federal money. When universities are evaluated, Federal dollars are considered more valuable than other dollars. Faculty are largely evaluated on the basis of research output--not teaching, or community service. All Federally-funded research must meet guidelines for insuring that minority or sexual discrimination does not occur. Of course, much of the apparatus set up to insure diversity has to be set up and is an added cost to universities. It is a reason that tuition keeps going up year after year. It is a reason that university administrations become top heavy and bloated.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-20 08:54|| 2011-02-20 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 When I went to Miami U. (geologic eras ago...) there were very few " people of color". This was before all this racial preference was really in force. Those that were there were very qualified hence no GPA inflation. Sad to see we continually lower the bar academically....wonder when the riots will start at the college level?

Posted by Warthog 2011-02-20 10:50|| 2011-02-20 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course, much of the apparatus set up to insure diversity has to be set up and is an added cost to universities. It is a reason that tuition keeps going up year after year. It is a reason that university administrations become top heavy and bloated.

I don't mean to imply that administrations become bloated only because of diversity programs. It is a host of federally mandated programs and laws which universities must comply with that cause university bureaucracies to become bloated, OHSA, EPA, privacy laws, affirmative action, sexual harassment, regulation on using human subjects for research, copyrights and patents, etc.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-20 11:49|| 2011-02-20 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 wonder when the riots will start at the college level?
they started in the 60"s.

Posted by bman 2011-02-20 14:00|| 2011-02-20 14:00|| Front Page Top

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