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Diversity Policies: Can They Overcome the Inadequate Preparation of Minority High School Graduates? (February, 1999)
Summary A major barrier to increasing the enrollment of targeted minority high school graduates is their weak academic preparation. It is true that Wisconsin minority high school graduates are widely viewed as underrepresented among entering freshmen from the state. But … Continue reading
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Diversity Programs: Have They Achieved Their Goals for Minority Students? (February, 1999)
Summary Gaps in enrollment, retention, and graduation rates among targeted minority students and particularly between Black and White students have remained virtually unchanged over the past two decades. During this same period a succession of affirmative action/diversity programs has sought … Continue reading
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UW’s Diversity Plan Ignores Discrimination
Reprint from the Wisconsin State Journal, May 20, 1998The UW System’s new diversity proposal, Plan 2008, received formal approval by the Board of Regent last week. A close reading reveals that the plan neglects one important issue that is central … Continue reading
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Let UW System Work Against All Bias
Reprint from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 12, 1998The UW System’s new 10-year diversity plan, approved Friday by the Board of Regents, ignores one issue central to diversity programs in higher education. It says nothing about the role of race/ethnic … Continue reading
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The UW System Diversity Plan: Wishful Thinking?
Reprint from the Badger Herald, March 4, 1998Can the UW System’s new diversity plan achieve its goal by the year 2008 “to erase the gap in educational attainment . . . for underrepresented people of color in the UW System? … Continue reading
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An Alternative Diversity Plan
Presented to the UW System Board of Regents, March, 1998 Assessing the UW System’s New Diversity Plan (Part Two) Can the UW System, by the year 2008, achieve its stated goal for diversity? Can the System “erase the gap in … Continue reading
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An Alternative Diversity Plan
Presented to the UW System Board of Regents, March, 1998The alternative diversity plan offered here (Part One) is intended to help rethink the UW System’s more than 25-year commitment to race/ethnic diversity in undergraduate enrollment. Its author argues for shifting … Continue reading
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Assessing the UW System’s New Diversity Plan (February, 1998)
Can the UW System, by the year 2008, achieve its stated goal for diversity? Can the System “erase the gap in educational attainment by bringing participation and graduation rates for underrepresented people of color in the UW System to the … Continue reading
On Diversity Policy and Undergraduate Admissions: Unanswered Questions (January, 1998)
Discussion of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s diversity policy over the last year, and the University of Wisconsin System’s hearings on diversity policy in the fall preparatory to this year’s reconsideration of the University of Wisconsin System’s Design for Diversity program, raise … Continue reading
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Adopting Policy For Diversity Sacrifices Quality
Reprint from the Wisconsin State Journal, April 14, 1997This afternoon the UW-Madison Faculty Senate will be asked to pass a resolution reaffirming its commitment to racial and ethnic diversity in minority enrollment and retention. What does passing such a resolution … Continue reading
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