At the elite colleges - dim white kids. AUTUMN AND a new academic year are upon us, which means that selective colleges are engaged in the annual ritual of singing the praises of their new freshman classes. Surf the websites of such institutions and you will find press releases boasting that they have increased their black and Hispanic enrollments, admitted bumper crops of National Merit scholars or became the destination of choice for hordes of high school valedictorians. Many are bragging about the large share of applicants they rejected, as a way of conveying to the world just how popular and selective they are.
What they almost never say is that many of the applicants who were rejected were far more qualified than those accepted. Moreover, contrary to popular belief, it was not the black and Hispanic beneficiaries of affirmative action, but the rich white kids with cash and connections who elbowed most of the worthier applicants aside. When social mobility goes away, at least two dangerous things can happen. How Did This Happen? by Daniel Luzer. August 22, 2012 6:08 PMHow Did This Happen? By Daniel Luzer What’s wrong with the American university today? Many people now understand that college has become dramatically more expensive than in past years, and that indebted graduates are now struggling to find jobs and having trouble paying for those expensive educations.
But it wasn’t always like that. College students have perhaps always been troublesome, but in past years they certainly weren’t so desperate. Colleges might have created college students like this on purpose, argues Debra Leigh Scott, an adjunct professor at Temple University. Maybe American businesses want graduates who are desperate, eager to find jobs, and willing to sacrifice anything just to pay the bills. Let’s go back to post World War II, 1950s when the GI bill, and the affordability — and sometimes free access — to universities created an upsurge of college students across the country.
So far, so good, for students at least. How did they do that? Haute Couture In The ‘Ivory Tower’ By Guest Contributor Dr. Tanisha C. Ford Southern Methodist professor Willard Spiegelman, from New York Times “Class Acts” spread. Courtesy: New York Times. A New York Times Magazine spread titled “Class Acts,” featuring six professors styled in designer fashions, recently resurfaced in the social media sphere largely due to the media’s budding interest in fashion in unexpected workplaces. I instantly took to my Twitter and Facebook pages to post the “Class Acts” spread for my diverse group of colleagues to weigh in on. But even after our insightful social-media venting session, I was still bothered by the spread.
From slavery to the present, African Americans and other people of color have used fashion as a form of cultural-political resistance and creative self-expression. After emancipation, some former bondwomen and men began wearing flamboyant outfits full of color as a means of resistance. Portrait of the author, taken in Ft. Dr. Dr. Boyce: It’s Time for Black Scholars to Escape the Academic Plantation. By Dr. Boyce Watkins – Scholarship in Action When I first thought about getting a PhD in Business, I found out about the PhD Project. This ground-breaking initiative had the simple goal of creating more black professors to sit in the front of the classroom. It was established by the KPMG Foundation, and from what I understand, might have been in response to a series of complaints about racism that the organization had received in the past. Since that time, the group has produced scores of black scholars in the field of business, an area that is in dire need of meaningful diversity.
I spoke recently to a friend about the PhD Project, which led to a tense discussion about how we train our black scholars. As you spend your career writing one research paper after another, you also teach classes, with many of them having only one or two black students. As a result of this antiquated approach to professional development, thousands of promising careers are ruined before they even begin. Dr. The closing of American academia. It is 2011 and I'm sitting in the Palais des Congres in Montreal, watching anthropologists talk about structural inequality. The American Anthropological Association meeting is held annually to showcase research from around the world, and like thousands of other anthropologists, I am paying to play: $650 for airfare, $400 for three nights in a "student" hotel, $70 for membership, and $94 for admission. The latter two fees are student rates.
If I were an unemployed or underemployed scholar, the rates would double. The theme of this year's meeting is "Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies. " My friend is an adjunct. According to the Adjunct Project, a crowdsourced website revealing adjunct wages - data which universities have long kept under wraps - her salary is about average. Why is my friend, a smart woman with no money, spending nearly $2000 to attend a conference she cannot afford? Below poverty line In most professions, salaries below the poverty line would be cause for alarm.