insidehighered.com - 21 days ago
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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has started an inquiry into the extent to which liberal arts colleges discriminate against female applicants in an attempt to minimize gender imbalances in the student body. On Friday, the commission agreed on a set of colleges -- primarily in the Washington ...
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Affirmative action for males
Joanne Jacobs —
With women earning 58 percent of bachelor’s degrees, some private liberal arts colleges are practicing affirmative action for male applicants to preserve a gender balance in enrollment. Private colleges have the legal right to discriminate against women, but don’t like to publicize it. Now the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether the practice is widespread. From Inside Higher Education: . . . the Civil Rights Commission’s inquiry is based on concerns about another part of Title IX — its requirement that colleges provide equitable athletic opportunities to ...
This makes me a horrible person
Unqualified Offerings —
... Muslims who came to the US for graduate school. Period. It annoys the shit out of me when people look at them and see a “problem” to be solved. If there’s a problem, it’s that American students aren’t studying hard enough to compete with the foreign applicants. Fix that problem. Get your kids to study harder. Don’t say “It’s a great school but there are too many [circle one: foreign graduate students, children of Chinese immigrants].” On a related note, let me point you to this : Apparently there are “too many” women in colleges, especially private liberal arts ...
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