Brown University President Expresses ‘Disappointment’ Over SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action
“As we analyze the decisions, I want to underscore that Brown is and will remain firmly committed to advancing the diversity that is central to achieving the highest standards of academic excellence”
Is anyone more depressed about this decision than the leaders of Ivy League schools?
From the Brown website:
Brown president responds to Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action
In the wake of a long-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admission, Brown University President Christina H. Paxson expressed deep disappointment in the ruling against a holistic practice of considering race among the factors in admitting students to universities. She emphasized the University’s commitment to complying with the law while also sustaining the diversity central to its mission.
In a June 29 letter to the Brown community, Paxson said the University will invest the time needed to conduct a thorough legal review of the 237-page opinion this summer. With the ruling upending decades of precedent, University leaders will focus on determining what strategies for enrolling a talented, diverse student body it can follow, and providing resources and guidance to academic and administrative units for understanding the implications of the court decision for Brown’s programs and activities.
“As we analyze the decisions, I want to underscore that Brown is and will remain firmly committed to advancing the diversity that is central to achieving the highest standards of academic excellence and preparing our students to grow and lead in a complex world,” Paxson wrote. “We know that Brown is strongest when people learn and work together in environments in which they are supported and respected for who they are. This will continue at Brown.”
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I expect that Brown will keep doing what they’ve been doing. They may stop requiring SATs and other standardized exams, because that will make it hard to prove what they’re doing.
The college I worked for was quietly using “affirmative action” for their “diversity hires” all along, even though that was clearly illegal. If someone sued, that would just be part of the cost of doing business. The same thing will happen in admissions.
“… the diversity that is central to achieving the highest standards of academic excellence.”
If one said such an internally contradictory thought in any other context — eg, the Manhattan project, the Apollo missions, a junior high school spelling bee team — you’d be laughed out of the room.
Respectfully, if you’d never heard anything about Brown having a good reputation in the past, you’d be forgiven for believing that this woman might well be a mildly thought-disordered inpatient allowed to sit on the executive committee of an insane asylum.
Seriously.
In my career as a practicing engineer, I never observed a shortage of engineers of any particular demographic. I did observe a shortage of excellent engineers. In my view, the diversity that contributes to professional excellence is the diversity of ways of thinking (e.g. thinking broadly, deeply, and out-of-the-box). I am just offering a free suggestion for Brown and other universities wanting to achieve a diversified student body and adhere to a 155 year old constitutional amendment. Admittedly, it is a bit harder to implement than having an applicant merely check a box.
How can that be so, when “diversity” excuses low academic performance?
If diversity is so great why the hard sell 24/7/365.
According to them nothing of value in the history of humanity has ever been done without a fully diverse crew of actors with each race given 100.00% perfectly equal representation. Just unimaginable.
The myth is that if you attend an “elite” college, then your future will be terrific.
It’s like believing that , say, Dylan Mulvaney could have made it to the NFL if only he had attended University of Alabama.
Nobody who works in the American educational system can openly acknowledge this obvious fact — it would harm the elite mystique that , like the Wizard of Oz, so much of their system is built on.
Sad.
No offense intended re: pronoun for Mulvaney.
Colleges have evolved over the years to accommodate those students who are enrolled for reasons other than their academic brilliance.
They’ve created these ridiculous “courses” that somehow pass muster with accreditation entities.
This clever little ruse permits everyone to graduate, get their diploma, but everyone who really needs to know … knows what the real deal is.
And the charade continues on and on, and so , and so forth.
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This whole college scam would be relatively benign but for the incredibly large amounts of money involved. Sheeesh
Why you would feel any need to say “no offense” by virtue of using the correct pronoun for Mr. Mulvaney is part of the problem. Trans activists intend to require all normies to abide their social construct. It is a false one. I think it important in this battle not to surrender the language heights to these ideological opponents. It is not rude to insist on using the proper pronouns as you know them. It is rude for the other side to insist, indeed, to require on pains of social or legal adverse consequences, that we use their social construct.
It’s Mr. Mulvaney. He has a mental health problem. All of them (those who actually believe their social construct) are in need of psychotherapy. We should urge them to seek it.