University of California Archives — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

From Diverse Professors to Professors of Diversity

Dec 7, 2018 · John Rosenberg · No Comments

Ever since Justice Powell’s lone opinion in Bakke allowed the camel’s nose of “diversity” under the anti-discrimination tent, controversy has raged over preferential treatment awarded to college applicants of certain races. Just as hurricanes often change direction after landfall, the diversity movement has recently taken off in some surprising new directions that deserve public attention. … Continue reading “From Diverse Professors to Professors of Diversity”

Exposing the Harms of the ‘Diversity Delusion’

Sep 26, 2018 · George Leef · No Comments

On November 7, 2006, Michigan voters passed Proposition 2, a measure that banned the use of racial preferences throughout state government and state universities. The next day, University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman issued a defiant statement. In it she pledged to fight in the courts against the voters’ decision to have a color-blind … Continue reading “Exposing the Harms of the ‘Diversity Delusion’”

A New Funding Idea (Sort of)

Feb 12, 2012 · George Leef · No Comments

A University of California student group advocates funding the system with student payments after they graduate.

When Racial Preferences Fell at UC

Jan 18, 2011 · John Rosenberg · No Comments

A one-sided book treats California’s experience after Prop. 209 as a disaster, while citing figures that show it was not.

Affirmative Action, the Stealth Version

Feb 8, 2009 · Jay Schalin · No Comments

The University of California’s new admissions policies are an end-run around the state’s race-blind laws.

UNC President Search is California Dreamin’

Jul 28, 2005 · Jon Sanders · No Comments

There’s an old North Carolina joke about bad ideas in California taking 10 years to arrive here. But one seems to be making record time. Exponential salary growth for public-university executives has the UNC president search committee California dreamin’.

Readers will recall that last year Marye Anne Fox, then chancellor of North Carolina State University, left Raleigh to take the same position at the University of California at San Diego. The West Coast school had offered Fox $102,000 a year more than N.C. State paid her. Fox was making $248,000 a year here; she picked up $350,000 in San Diego.

‘Price creep’ on chancellor pay extends from California to Carolina

May 20, 2004 · Jon Sanders · No Comments

This spring Chancellor Marye Anne Fox surprised folks at North Carolina State University and the UNC system when she announced that she had accepted the chancellorship at the University of California at San Diego. It didn’t take long, however, for people at UNC to find an old foe to blame for Fox’s departure: low pay.

The tragic life and death of a poster boy

Aug 16, 2002 · Jon Sanders · No Comments

He was held up as the poster boy of racial preferences in the fight against California’s Proposition 209, the ballot initiative outlawing preferences passed overwhelmingly in 1996. An ardent defender of preferences, in 1995 he was profiled as their best defense in the pages of The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

The SAT or the racial gap it measures?

Jul 19, 2002 · Jon Sanders · No Comments

What is so wrong with the SAT that it needs an overhaul? The SAT is, quite frankly, too objective — and one of the things it measures objectively is the vast difference in educational preparation between black and white students.

Racial Preferences, Grade Inflation Hurt Education, Students Say

Apr 20, 2000 · staff · No Comments

While most students favor ethnic diversity on campus, they oppose compromising fairness and high standards to achieve it, according to new survey by Zogby International. The study, commissioned by the New York-based Foundation for Academic Standards and Tradition (FAST), interviewed 1,004 randomly selected college students nationwide.

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