{"id":59,"date":"2006-07-02T22:46:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T03:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2006-07-02T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T04:43:06","slug":"letter-to-board-of-regents-on-undergraduate-admissions-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Board of Regents on Undergraduate Admissions Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>August 28, 2001<\/em>In anticipation of the next Board meeting&#8217;s agenda item on the admissions process at UW-Madison, I am sending my observations on the July 6, 2001 report submitted by UW-Madison Admissions Director Rob Seltzer.<\/p>\n<p>The Seltzer report does not, in my view, provide enough information so the Board can understand the details of how admission process works and particularly how race\/ethnicity is factored into admissions decisions. I amplify on these conclusions in the attached statement.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to attaching for your convenience a copy of the Seltzer report, I append for comparison a copy of my detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/%7Ewhansen\/new99_04.html\">February 1999 analysis<\/a> of the UW-Madison admission process. I will spare you additional copies of several other documents that are pertinent to your consideration, namely, the Spring 2001 memos to the Board from me (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/%7Ewhansen\/admi_let.html\">March 26<\/a>), John Wiley (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/%7Ewhansen\/wiley_mo.html\">April 6<\/a>), and me again (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/%7Ewhansen\/jwresp.html\">May 4<\/a>) on how the admissions process works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 2001In anticipation of the next Board meeting&#8217;s agenda item on the admissions process at UW-Madison, I am sending my observations on the July 6, 2001 report submitted by UW-Madison Admissions Director Rob Seltzer. The Seltzer report does not, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/?p=59\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wlhansen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}