Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 24, 2023 6:08:22 GMT -5
Boston Globe article. Rougeau is quoted twice.
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/22/metro/with-supreme-court-poised-eliminate-use-race-college-admissions-states-with-existing-bans-offer-sobering-view/?et_rid=1745615983&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
(VR is becoming a go-to guy for the Globe when it comes to quotes. He also recently opined about legacy admits at Holy Cross.)
This recent article in Forbes on Fr. Brooks and Clarence Thomas.
www.forbes.com/sites/dianebrady/2023/01/17/to-be-an-ally-learn-from-the-man-who-helped-clarence-thomas/?sh=750bc5c24564
Diane Brady wrote Fraternity. She is the assistant managing editor at Forbes.
Since California and Michigan ended affirmative action in college admissions years ago, top universities in both states have tried a range of race-neutral strategies to recruit Black, Hispanic, Native American, and multicultural students, including more outreach to low-income students.
The results have proven to be sobering, especially at the most selective campuses, a fact which has caught the attention of higher education officials in New England, home to some of the nation’s leading elite colleges.
“Are we comfortable with that result? I’m personally not,” said Vincent Rougeau, president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.
The results have proven to be sobering, especially at the most selective campuses, a fact which has caught the attention of higher education officials in New England, home to some of the nation’s leading elite colleges.
“Are we comfortable with that result? I’m personally not,” said Vincent Rougeau, president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.
New research from Georgetown University found that selective colleges will be unlikely to achieve a level of diversity that mirrors society if they can’t consider race in the admissions process. Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown’s Center for Education and the Workforce, which published the research, offered a bleak assessment on whether colleges will be able to achieve diverse enrollments without affirmative action.
“There really is no hope,” Carnevale said. “This is very bad news for Boston and for New England in general, because New England is the North Star for elite liberal arts colleges in America.”
The impact of bans on affirmative action reverberates far beyond college campuses, researchers say.
In California, about 15 years after Proposition 209 went into effect, there were about 1,000 fewer high-earning Black and Hispanic professionals in the state, said Zachary Bleemer, a Yale researcher who studied the impact of the California ban. This happened, Bleemer said, because those Black and Hispanic applicants were no longer being admitted to the state’s most selective public schools, like UC Berkeley and UCLA. Instead, they were going to less rigorous academic programs that often resulted in lower paying jobs.
“They became a little less likely to earn degrees in lucrative fields and the sciences,” Bleemer said in an interview. “So, there were costs for Black and Hispanic students.”
Some question why it is important for the student populations at elite colleges to mirror that of the country as a whole, when the Ivy League and similar schools enroll such a small percentage of college students in the United States. But these universities graduate a disproportionate number of the people who go on to become leaders in business, government, and education, said Rougeau, the Holy Cross president.
“In this country that’s diverse and increasingly so, it’s important that diversity be reflected in the most selective institutions,” he said.
“There really is no hope,” Carnevale said. “This is very bad news for Boston and for New England in general, because New England is the North Star for elite liberal arts colleges in America.”
The impact of bans on affirmative action reverberates far beyond college campuses, researchers say.
In California, about 15 years after Proposition 209 went into effect, there were about 1,000 fewer high-earning Black and Hispanic professionals in the state, said Zachary Bleemer, a Yale researcher who studied the impact of the California ban. This happened, Bleemer said, because those Black and Hispanic applicants were no longer being admitted to the state’s most selective public schools, like UC Berkeley and UCLA. Instead, they were going to less rigorous academic programs that often resulted in lower paying jobs.
“They became a little less likely to earn degrees in lucrative fields and the sciences,” Bleemer said in an interview. “So, there were costs for Black and Hispanic students.”
Some question why it is important for the student populations at elite colleges to mirror that of the country as a whole, when the Ivy League and similar schools enroll such a small percentage of college students in the United States. But these universities graduate a disproportionate number of the people who go on to become leaders in business, government, and education, said Rougeau, the Holy Cross president.
“In this country that’s diverse and increasingly so, it’s important that diversity be reflected in the most selective institutions,” he said.
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/22/metro/with-supreme-court-poised-eliminate-use-race-college-admissions-states-with-existing-bans-offer-sobering-view/?et_rid=1745615983&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
(VR is becoming a go-to guy for the Globe when it comes to quotes. He also recently opined about legacy admits at Holy Cross.)
This recent article in Forbes on Fr. Brooks and Clarence Thomas.
www.forbes.com/sites/dianebrady/2023/01/17/to-be-an-ally-learn-from-the-man-who-helped-clarence-thomas/?sh=750bc5c24564
Diane Brady wrote Fraternity. She is the assistant managing editor at Forbes.
