Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Semantic Shift Watch

Inside Higher Ed has a story about Sonoma State University that starts


A faculty report has stirred some racial tensions at Sonoma State University, following claims from its author that the institution’s
administration has deliberately targeted those from higher-income families as potential students for the past decade. In this process, the report claims that the university has become the “whitest” public institution in California, effectively preferring white students to minorities in an admission practice that it deems “reverse affirmative action.”


One aspect of Sonoma State that is decidedly diverse is the administration, where the president, provost and director of admissions – all criticized in the report – are Latino. The
professor who brought forth this report, however, is white.


Since when is a university administration whose senior members are from one ethnic group decidedly diverse?

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