Applying Affirmative Action
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Historically black colleges apply REVERSE affirmative action:
More non-black students attending historically black colleges
October 05, 2010|By Samieh Shalash, sshalash@dailypress.com | 247-4537
— Elizabeth Hallaren, a 20-year-old white woman, says she is beginning to understand what it's like to be a minority.
As a fourth-year nursing student at Hampton University, she is part of an increasing number of non-black students attending historically black colleges and universities such as HU. Enrollment trends have diversified greatly over the last two decades at traditionally black colleges, experts say.
Hallaren's reason for attending HU meshes with why many say more non-black students are enrolling: It's practical.
A Newport News resident, Hallaren said she decided to attend nearby HU for its proximity, a tuition-paid scholarship, and its availability of a nursing program.
"I can't say that I was really looking forward to being in a place where I really stuck out too much," Hallaren said. "But at the same time, I wasn't upset about it. I was just a little nervous at first."
A 2009 report by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which represents almost half of the nation's 105 historically black colleges, says that the proportion of Hispanic, Asian, and multi-ethnic students enrolled in its member institutions jumped from 6 percent to 8 percent of the student population from 1986 to 2006.
There are many possible reasons for the increase, says Trish Williams, dean of the W.E.B. Du Bois College House at the University of Pennsylvania. Du Bois was established in 1972 as a residential program for black students but gradually become home to more and more non-blacks, she said.
White and other non-black students have discovered they can get a good education at historically black colleges for a lot less than at some predominately white schools, Williams said. And many HBCUs actively recruit whites in order to receive federal funding, she added.
"Young people are different from their parents and grandparents," Williams said. "They are not afraid of experiencing diversity. In fact, many of them demand it."
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More non-black students attending historically black colleges - Daily Press
Just as whites got educated at black or brown academies in ancient Egypt or Medieval Spain, whites are now enjoying low cost education at these schools thanks to reverse affirmative action.
Anybody find that objectionable???
More non-black students attending historically black colleges
October 05, 2010|By Samieh Shalash, sshalash@dailypress.com | 247-4537
— Elizabeth Hallaren, a 20-year-old white woman, says she is beginning to understand what it's like to be a minority.
As a fourth-year nursing student at Hampton University, she is part of an increasing number of non-black students attending historically black colleges and universities such as HU. Enrollment trends have diversified greatly over the last two decades at traditionally black colleges, experts say.
Hallaren's reason for attending HU meshes with why many say more non-black students are enrolling: It's practical.
A Newport News resident, Hallaren said she decided to attend nearby HU for its proximity, a tuition-paid scholarship, and its availability of a nursing program.
"I can't say that I was really looking forward to being in a place where I really stuck out too much," Hallaren said. "But at the same time, I wasn't upset about it. I was just a little nervous at first."
A 2009 report by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which represents almost half of the nation's 105 historically black colleges, says that the proportion of Hispanic, Asian, and multi-ethnic students enrolled in its member institutions jumped from 6 percent to 8 percent of the student population from 1986 to 2006.
There are many possible reasons for the increase, says Trish Williams, dean of the W.E.B. Du Bois College House at the University of Pennsylvania. Du Bois was established in 1972 as a residential program for black students but gradually become home to more and more non-blacks, she said.
White and other non-black students have discovered they can get a good education at historically black colleges for a lot less than at some predominately white schools, Williams said. And many HBCUs actively recruit whites in order to receive federal funding, she added.
"Young people are different from their parents and grandparents," Williams said. "They are not afraid of experiencing diversity. In fact, many of them demand it."
... more ...
More non-black students attending historically black colleges - Daily Press
Just as whites got educated at black or brown academies in ancient Egypt or Medieval Spain, whites are now enjoying low cost education at these schools thanks to reverse affirmative action.
Anybody find that objectionable???
I have written on this subject quite a few times over the years and wonder why it still is an issue.
The bottom line is that affirmative action has ALWAYS existed since the days of the ancient Egyptians. It existed again the Medieval period, at Ivy League schools since they were created and at many colleges. Up to now, nobody has ever objected to affirmative action because it was white males who were the almost the exclusive beneficiaries. In modern times, minorities started to get the same benefits that white males have always enjoyed. And not so strangely, now certain deluded pundits find it objectionable.
Oh by the way, while those Ivy League schools gave affirmative actions admissions to indigent whites from overseas or from farmlands, their all female associated schools like Barnard, Radcliffe, or Mount Holyoke gave similar admissions benefits but, again, only to white females.