The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on August 12, 2021, 05:18:14 pm
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University to create equity-based honors program for students of color
https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-to-create-equity-based-honors-program-for-students-of-color/ (https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-to-create-equity-based-honors-program-for-students-of-color/)
Higher education honors programs have traditionally been designed to give high-achieving students a chance to push themselves further and deeper academically at the collegiate level, but in today’s age of equity, one university aims to turn the idea on its head.
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The effort aims to attract the “region’s BIPOC communities,” stated Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Vincent Del Casino when he announced the undertaking last September.
BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, People of Color.
The large public university nestled in California’s Silicon Valley already offers various traditional honors programs.
This is at CSU San Jose, but other universities in other states are probably doing or planning similar stupidity.
1. If "BIPOC" students aren't qualifying for honors programs, dumbing down honors programs is the stupidest and worst possible "fix".
2. I have zero doubt that many "POC" are in honors programs at San Jose State. They're just the "wrong sort" of POC. One of my kids graduated from SJS "cum laude", so I met some of their classmates and know this to be true.