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Category Archives: Preferrential Admissions
Inconsistencies in diversity housing necessitate audit
May 2, 2012 The Badger Herald Why is it so difficult to obtain information on the characteristics and financing of the Minority and Disadvantaged Student program operated by the University of Wisconsin’s University Housing Division? Undergraduates living in the dorms may be … Continue reading
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In search of the real cost for UW diversity programs
November 5, 2011 Wisconsin State Journal What is the dollar value of the resources devoted to promoting racial and ethnic diversity at UW-Madison? Though campus administrators regularly extol the educational benefits of diversity, they say little about the costs of … Continue reading
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UW-Madison should treat all applicants the same way
November 1, 2011 Isthmus The Daily Page In September, the Center for Equal Opportunity’s reports documenting “severe discrimination” favoring blacks and Hispanics in UW-Madison undergraduate and law school admissions came as no surprise. This discrimination has been well known to … Continue reading
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Unanswered Questions: UW-Madison Students Protest CEO Report on Racial and Ethnic Preferences in Admissions
October 21, 2011 National Association of Scholars “Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth … Continue reading
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Better answers required to justify holistic admissions process
October 19, 2011 The Badger Herald Exactly how are minority applicant admissions decisions made at the University of Wisconsin? At Monday’s Legislative Assembly committee hearing, Provost Paul DeLuca and Admissions Director Adele Brumfield described the process. They also dismissed the … Continue reading
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Preferential admissions alive and well at UW
October 5, 2011 Capital Times UW-Madison campus leaders and minority students responded as expected to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Equal Opportunity report that revealed “severe discrimination” based on race and ethnicity in UW-Madison undergraduate admissions. Campus leaders claimed their … Continue reading
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From the inside, protesters were ‘mob’
September 21, 2011 Wisconsin State Journal A different picture of last week’s student protest over UW admissions discrimination emerged from my vantage point inside the Doubletree Hotel press conference room compared to that of the author of Monday’s letter “Student … Continue reading
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The ‘Hansen Diversity Plan’
September 26, 2010 The Badger Herald This column is an introduction to the “Hansen Diversity Plan”, in which I propose a new approach to enhance the effectiveness of campus diversity efforts. In the past, I have been critical of the … Continue reading
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‘Targeted minority’ status hurting UW
April 6, 2010 The Badger Herald “Why do you keep stigmatizing our ‘targeted minority’ students? What you write and say makes them feel bad and interferes with their academic achievement.” That is what campus administrators often tell me after something … Continue reading
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Letter to the editor: Madison’s Diversity Plan since Plan 2008 ended
February 26, 2014 The Daily Cardinal Your news report (Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee releases UW-Madison Diversity Draft plan, Feb. 20, 2014) is wrong in repeating the assertion that UW-Madison has gone without a diversity plan since Plan 2008 ended … Continue reading →