Do certain schools in the Big 12 do race based admission?
The University of Nebraska in November of 2008 voted to ban the consideration of race in admissions decisions by public colleges and universities.
The University of Colorado also voted in November of 2008 on what is known as the "affirmative action ban." However by a vote of 51% to 49% the ban wich was a propsed constitutional ban on considering race or gender in state hiring, contracting and college admissions did not pass.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/08/nation/na-colo8
Some other schools that do not adhere to race-based admission but may not have any particular ban in place are Oklahoma State University, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and the University of Texas. These schools do take race into account but it is not the deciding factor. Race may be factored in among high school GPA, extra-curricular activities and specific skills.
The University of Michigan Law School Supreme Court case kept popping up in my research about the affirmative ban and big 12 schools.
"The U.S. Supreme Court justices decided on two separate but parallel cases -- they voted 5-4 to uphold the University of Michigan's law school affirmative action
policy, which favors minorities. But in a 6-3 vote, the justices struck down the affirmative
action policy for undergraduate admissions, which awards 20 points for blacks,
Hispanics and Native Americans on an admissions rating scale," according to a article
from NPR.
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/michigan/
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I am glad you were able to do the research and U of M popped up. What was the consensus for the Big 12 schools that you found?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion you are talking about positive discrimination. I cannot tell if it is good or not, because it's hard to me not to distinguish between different races -even in a possitive way. However the problem is that you are talking about a university, and they should focus on academic aspects and not on where they come from. It's difficult being white people and not treating in different way to another minorities. The same is happening with gender, where we can find several regulation about hiring. Some advertisement companies in Spain have to hire 50% men and 50% women by its statutes.
ReplyDeleteI just could read information in your entry but not your personal point of view; what do you think about this topic? What do you think a university should do?
Jaime O.
Well what I would like to know is what makes the law school at the university of michigan above other undergraduate programs when it comes to affirmative action.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the law program is far more selective at that particular university. That's my theory on why they grant more points for minorities. It does make sense. After all, Michigan, like any other university, gets a flood of applicants on an annual basis, but when you get down to the more selective and specific programs catered toward individual majors, the requirements become more stringent.
I know personally I have some friends who attend the university of texas who are attempting to get accepted into their broadcast program, which is apparently very selective. I'm not sure if minorities gain any extra points in that area, but it might be worth chasing.
Hope that made sense.
Nick.