5/27/2011: Interesting story in the Chronicle by Richard Kahlenberg reporting that LBJ’s 1965 AA proposals were explicitly based on class, not the race and ethnicity that are its current focus, and the focus of UO’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. Perhaps the new OIED director will have a view…
Posts tagged as “Diversity”
4/23/2011: At a recent “visioning session” for the UO diversity office, a speaker from the local minority community made the very accurate point that UO’s outreach efforts were mostly focused on the athletic department – not on recruiting high academic performing minority students interested in college. The economist Charles Clotfelter,…
4/20/2011: There are a lot of things about UO’s OIED I do not understand. Like this email. Apparently VP for Diversity Charles Martinez hired Abernethy for $2500, to mediate a dispute between the OIED/OMAS staff and himself. Abernethy is a psychologist at Fuller Theological Seminary. Fuller is a fundamentalist divinity…
4/20/2011: That’s what I think I heard CAS Dean Scott Coltrane say Academic Affairs is considering requiring, starting next year. Anyone know more – such as how much we paid the consultant who recommended this, and who presumably knows just the right people to provide this training? (Update: apparently no…
4/18/2011: Physicist Steve Hsu in the Boston Globe: Even though the Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that universities can continue to consider race in admissions in the interest of diversity, admissions officers deny they’re screening out Asian-Americans. However, in researching their 2009 book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, Princeton…
4/13/2011: A very good idea: Preferred Background Experience in student recruitment, education advocacy, or college counseling Proficiency and fluency (grammar, spelling, syntax, structure) in both written and spoken Spanish Experience with, or graduation from, the University of Oregon This is a full time, 12-month, fixed-term appointment. Salary range is $29,000…
4/4/2011: I was fully prepared to make fun of the “Bias Response Team” and its event-packed awareness week, but the truth is it looks like the most diverse diversity event on campus yet, by far. See you in the Tunnel of Oppression. Glad to see the students are acting like…
3/30/2011: My report from the diversity meeting today. This was billed as the session for faculty and staff. Turnout was low – there were about 8 search committee people, maybe 5 faculty, and about 40 staff. Make what you will of the disinterest on the part of the faculty. If…
3/30/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a good story about a successful effort to encourage students from a small rural Oregon HS to go to college. The raw stats are pretty striking: An analysis by The Oregonian found the percentages of 2009 graduates who went on to one of…
3/28/2011: UO’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity needs a new Vice President. It’s a big job, with a large budget and staff, control of a lot of dedicated funds, and in the right hands it has the potential for a lot of positive impact. The hiring committee was appointed…
3/19/2011: My grades are in, and I just graduated two Saudi students, with C’s. One from a town near Yemen, another from near Bahrain. I asked them about the uprisings – what were they going to do when they got back to Saudi Arabia? “It is a Kingdom. We have…
8/10/2010: Ryan Buckley of the Daily Emerald has an article on an all-volunteer program some UO faculty started to encourage local low-SES students to go to college. KEZI has a brief clip on President Larviere’s talk at the camp, here. Mark Baker had an earlier article on this in the…
8/5/2010: Imagine what they could do with the $905,000 the VP for Diversity budgets for administrative expenses and reviewing “diversity action plan strategic reports”. Camp for a cause | A series of University of Oregon summer programs aims to give low-income high school and middle school students a taste of…
7/19/2010: From Ross Douthat in the NYTimes, discussing this book on who gets into elite colleges: For minority applicants, the lower a family’s socioeconomic position, the more likely the student was to be admitted. For whites, though, it was the reverse. An upper-middle-class white applicant was three times more likely…
6/18/2010: From the blurb from the new Century Foundation book on access to higher education, Rewarding Strivers: Obstacles are more closely associated with class than race, suggesting affirmative action should be primarily about socioeconomic status. Racial discrimination continues to play a role in education, but its influence is dwarfed by…