One University's Case for Race. Mark Clayton.
by Clayton, Mark; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 11Institutions. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Affirmative action programs | Chronology -- Historical | Discrimination in higher education | Education -- Demographic aspects | Multicultural education | Pluralism (Social sciences) | Reverse discrimination | Universities and colleges -- Admission | University of Michigan | University of VirginiaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "For 145 of its 177 years, the University of Virginia was a nearly all-white, all-male preserve, a Southern finishing school where a gentleman's 'C' was perfectly acceptable. It was also a place where, in February 1861, as the nation girded for civil war, students crept atop the school's famous Rotunda and hoisted a Confederate flag. And that's about where the affirmative-action era found Thomas Jefferson's university in 1969, still dragging its heels on civil rights, saddled with a history of segregation and unremarkable academic achievement. Fast-forward three decades to a new University of Virginia, dubbed the nation's top public university in 2000 and--amazingly enough--a leader in terms of racial diversity." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article examines how the claim by most selective universities in the US that "a richer ethnic mix on campus means a better education" plays out at the University of Virginia.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: One University's Case for Race, April 1, 2003; pp. 15+.
"For 145 of its 177 years, the University of Virginia was a nearly all-white, all-male preserve, a Southern finishing school where a gentleman's 'C' was perfectly acceptable. It was also a place where, in February 1861, as the nation girded for civil war, students crept atop the school's famous Rotunda and hoisted a Confederate flag. And that's about where the affirmative-action era found Thomas Jefferson's university in 1969, still dragging its heels on civil rights, saddled with a history of segregation and unremarkable academic achievement. Fast-forward three decades to a new University of Virginia, dubbed the nation's top public university in 2000 and--amazingly enough--a leader in terms of racial diversity." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article examines how the claim by most selective universities in the US that "a richer ethnic mix on campus means a better education" plays out at the University of Virginia.
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