Questioning the Diversity Delusion on Race-Obsessed Campuses
The Balkanization of college campuses.
Wed Dec 2, 2020 Richard L. Cravatts
When he wryly observed that “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act,†Orwell may well have had academia in mind, where challenging prevailing ideology can have a calamitous effect on one’s reputation and career—something especially true of faculty.
In 1978, the significant Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case brought the term “diversity†into the lexicon of higher education Although the Court found that the medical school at the University of California at Davis had used an unconstitutional quota system in denying Alan Bakke admission, Justice Lewis Powell made his now-famous observation that, notwithstanding the inherent defect of such a quota system, universities could likely enhance the quality of their enrollments by striving to create a “diverse student body†engaging in “a robust exchange of ideas,†and that there was “a compelling state interest†in trying to achieve such a goal and in promoting the inclusion of historically underrepresented groups on campus.
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