(blackenterprise.com) Racial diversity among first-year students is increasing at Ivy League institutions and other high-ranking, predominantly white colleges and universities.
The number of first-year African American students for the 2005â€â€2006 academic year increased at universities such as Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Columbia, according to “The Progress of Black Student Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities,” a study by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. (more…)
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While this does sound like great news, I cannot help but wonder what percentage of these students made it in because of Affirmative Action. Were academic requirements lowered to get them in?
I am only asking this becase here in S. California their is an ongoing debate over UCLA’s decision to take a “holistic” approach to admissions (which is code for using “other factors” besides academics for consideration). UCLA has acknowledged that it is switching to the concept as a response to their declining Black enrollment.
Here is an excerpt from a pro-affirmative action article regarding comments made by LA mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa:
At the national Urban League’s 2006 conference, Villaraigosa cited affirmative action as a factor in his success. “Some people would say I snuck into UCLA through the back door. But one thing’s for sure: I got out through the front door,” he said in late July in Atlanta. (more…)
He may got out the front door, but when it came to his Bar exam, he failed it 4 times. He has never passed it.
To be fair here, there have been many people who have entered colleges/universities and have excelled under AA. My point here is by lowering academic standards, you INCREASE the amount cases where students are not able to handle that level of academics.
So again, while I am glad to hear that there are more Black faces showing up on Ivy league campuses that are not there for cleaning 
, I am still left wondering if just making it is something to celebrate here.
