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2003-08-16 18:21 | User Profile
A&M's new hire aimed at diversifying campus Goal is to increase minority enrollment
Houston Chronicle Aug. 16, 2003
Texas A&M University has hired James A. Anderson, an administrator at North Carolina State University, to help foster diversity at the school, which has been criticized as being unwelcoming to minorities.
One of Anderson's goals will be to increase the number of minority students on campus, where more than three-quarters of the enrollment is white.
Anderson said he also will look into hiring faculty and increasing the number of international students and the presence of women in nontraditional fields.
"It's not just limited to minority students or students of color," Anderson said. "I'm going to be the person to have an eye on it all. They (students) have to have a good sense of what it means to go into a globalized work force." ...
Matthew Maddox, a senior student and chairman of A&M's Young Conservatives of Texas, said the creation of the position that focuses on diversity in wasteful and unnecessary
"We believe every student should be given an equal chance; to hire somebody to do that is awful," Maddox said.
"I'm kind of worried about what they will be doing here. It's going to be an expensive position," he said. "It's wasteful." ...
While one of Anderson's goals will be to increase the number of minority students, the process does not include implementation of quotas or lowering of standards, said McClendon.
A majority of minorities interviewed in a December 2001 study said they had a negative perception of the university. That study by A&M's Race and Ethnic Studies Institute revealed that 97 percent of white students had a positive view of the school, while 65 percent of minorities had a negative view.
The study concluded that minorities become increasingly alienated the longer they stay at Texas A&M.
Full Story: [url=http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2050934]http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/m...politan/2050934[/url]
The 126-year-old university has been criticized for lacking diverse enrollment:
White - 77 percent Hispanic - 8 percent Asian - 3 percent Black - 2 percent
2003-08-16 18:22 | User Profile
Free Rebublic's Message forum about the Story:
Just sugarcoat your words for the Neo-Conservatives. You know the Game. [url=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/965224/posts]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/965224/posts[/url]
2003-08-16 19:20 | User Profile
Check out "Diversity Resource Guide" at Carnegie Mellon at [url=http://hr.web.cmu.edu/drg/overview/statement.html]http://hr.web.cmu.edu/drg/overview/statement.html[/url]. Increasing "diversity" at Carnegie Mellon started with the hiring of Cohon (wink, wink) as University's President. Aren't the tribesmen predictable with their tribal agenda?
2003-08-16 21:04 | User Profile
Texas folk should go to [url=http://www.freesouth.org]http://www.freesouth.org[/url] and join and get active to restore a free White South!
If we don't act soon in Texas we could one day see another "Alamo" but this time it would truly be a final stand as there will be no Whites left to pull off a San Jacinto! :gun:
2003-08-16 21:48 | User Profile
*Originally posted by johnereb63@Aug 16 2003, 16:04 * ** Texas folk should go to [url=http://www.freesouth.org]http://www.freesouth.org[/url] and join and get active to restore a free White South!
If we don't act soon in Texas we could one day see another "Alamo" but this time it would truly be a final stand as there will be no Whites left to pull off a San Jacinto! :gun: **
Thanks for the link, Johnny Reb. I was not aware of this organization and it certainly interests me. If you have any info as to what is going on in Texas, then please email me at siteadmin@originaldissent.com.
I'd appreciate that.