"University of Georgia panel seeks to enroll more blacks"

[The Backlash Cometh]

Almost five years after the University of Georgia eliminated race as a factor in its admissions decisions, a faculty committee has recommended reinstating it in the hope of enrolling more black students.

Since an appeal-court ruling in favor of three white women who had been turned down for admission, the university has selected college freshmen purely on the basis of academic performance. That period has seen the percentage of black incoming freshmen drop from between 5.5 percent and 7 percent to a low this year of 4.5 percent.

<snip>

This fall, 418 black applicants were accepted and 202 black students ended up enrolling, making up 4.5 percent of a class that numbered 4495. Georgia's population is 28.7 percent black, according to the 2000 U.S. census.

The faculty recommendation would add consideration of racial, linguisitic, experiential, and geographic diversity for applicants who are academically neither strong enough to be automatically admitted nor weak enough to be denied.

Original article was in the Los Angeles Times. The above is an excerpt from the Orlando Sentinel. I don't have an net link.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Yep...

That's happening all over where they no longer look at race as a factor. Guess they didn't want to know that a lot of the preparation for college is done in High Schools. If High Schools are Sub-standard... makes it hard for minorities to be competitive. Since the people with money most often happen to be white...they usually can pay for those expensive SAT study classes ($1,500) during the summer.

Since much of the funding that individual schools receive are based on the property taxes of any given school disctrict, and additional moneys are brought in by parent donations (e.g., activities to raise school funds), sub-standard education should not be a shock to these folks. That, along with Legacy considerations still being a factor in college admission considerations....I hope they were not surprised that Black enrollment dropped off.

Doh!...