Two Lawsuits That Could Kill Yale
American Conservative,
by
Helen Andrews
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
9/9/2020 9:26:36 AM
The current state of higher education is so insane and irrational that a sensible observer must conclude that colleges will not reform unless they are forced to.(Snip)There are two lawsuits currently attempting to nudge higher ed away from being a soulless parasite on the middle class and onto a more sustainable path. Unfortunately, the two are pushing in opposite directions.(Snip)The first lawsuit is the California case that last week produced an injunction blocking the University of California system from using SAT or ACT test scores in admissions. (Snip)The second case was announced by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in August, when it notified Yale University that a two-year
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/9/2020 9:33:57 AM (No. 535577)
OP comment. To be understood, this article must be read. Interesting that the DoJ has gotten involved in the one regarding racial discrimination in Yale’s affirmative action program. As for the move away from testing, there is an assumption that the new crops of freshmen will dwindle in the coming years due to demographics. The question: Do universities want to fill those spaces with “non-college-ready, bottom-quintile-scoring dullards”?
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Mofongo 9/9/2020 9:43:30 AM (No. 535585)
An interesting but wrong-headed piece. Race should have nothing to do with college admissions, or much else. And higher education should be about educating. Otherwise, we’d better start learning Chinese, and fast.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mobiusmman 9/9/2020 9:47:31 AM (No. 535589)
#1: The colleges already do -- fill their "spaces" with -- not only the bottom of the high school barrel (illiterate, uneducated high school students) -- but uneducable students from beneath the barrel.
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Rumblehog 9/9/2020 10:01:18 AM (No. 535605)
It's truly ironic how libertards love to espouse Darwinism and "natural selection" as the standard for all science but when it comes to the betterment of higher education through a "selection" process, they feel compelled to artificially inject human melanin into the equation. Humanity will benefit most by allowing the best and brightest to come together at our best universities for matriculation.
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udanja99 9/9/2020 10:10:16 AM (No. 535618)
You can’t make this up! The ultra PC Yale, founded by a slave trader, being charged with racial discrimination. Shut the place down and turn it into Section 8 housing. Call it “ reparations”.
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HotRod 9/9/2020 10:15:15 AM (No. 535625)
Yes, its already happening. The big universities are approaching the point that they will admit anyone who can pay the tuition and fees. Just like the ''Internet colleges'' all you have to do is pay the money and you will get a diploma, especially if you are a minority.
Like every other industry, it's all about money. Big Education is populated by people who have lost interest in education as we have known it. It wants more and more money, for less and less quality education.
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Shut 'er down boys! Take the Billions that Yale has in their Endowment Funds and give it back to the state or federal government! They throw money away like it's Monopoly...still better use than a student going to this communist indoctrination center!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/9/2020 10:36:55 AM (No. 535659)
Yale & the Ivy League are enemies of US.
Let the DOJ kill dem.
Karma.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
poliposter 9/9/2020 11:01:04 AM (No. 535689)
#1, the description of the study about what Harvard's student body would look like without affirmative action is a pretty accurate description of the current student body at Johns Hopkins. I know because my progeny who scored a perfect SAT score on the first and only attempt, was waitlisted at Yale, but graduated from Hopkins. Higher ed described as a "soulless on the middle class" is accurate. Bio 101 is Bio 101. You don't get anything more by paying exorbitant prices for it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 9/9/2020 11:09:24 AM (No. 535698)
Is the author a Conservative? She seems disturbed by the idea that top universities might be majority Asian and tiny minority Black, and thinks that maybe it's good that they do something about it. Maybe I'm coming at this from the libertarian-leaning wing of conservatism, but clearly the right thing to do is to base admissions on merit, and let the chips fall where they may. If a college wants to be "elite", then "elite" has to mean something. There are plenty of other colleges for kids who are not academic grinds. Diversity doesn't all have to be in the same place.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Krause 9/9/2020 11:44:23 AM (No. 535727)
If Yale ends up being only 1% black, you can blame the democrat party for part of it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
poliposter 9/9/2020 11:56:06 AM (No. 535746)
#10, elite does mean something . . . it means you got more cash than most people or you're willing to go $250,000+ in debt to pretend you have that much cash.
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udanja99 9/9/2020 1:53:11 PM (No. 535796)
#9, congratulations on your progeny and I’m glad that he/she survived four years in the cesspool that is Baltimore.
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