tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post5497076267601698976..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: Admitting a Problem?David Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-28415868410279092852009-03-09T12:50:00.000-07:002009-03-09T12:50:00.000-07:00Northfield may be less remote than Williams, but y...Northfield may be less remote than Williams, but you might be onto something about coast vs. fly-over zone. <BR/><BR/>Though I do agree that admitting students is far from the end of the solution. Working at a TFA school has opened my eyes to how inadequately some students are prepared. While my top students are plenty smart and dedicated, they're still YEARS behind where I was when I entered Carleton. And I had to play catch-up. The fact that these schools are higher minority just indicates that we have that much more work to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-75586514276522400742009-03-08T23:32:00.000-07:002009-03-08T23:32:00.000-07:00I was interested to see how much the yield numbers...I was interested to see how much the yield numbers varied and how they didn't seem to correlate very strongly with the percentage of the student body that is black. <BR/><BR/>My mother was a professor and now is in administration at a Northeastern university with very low minority enrollment of any sort. The university admits a lot of black students, but very few end up deciding to go there. My mother's impression of the situation is that the campus is not perceived as being very friendly to people who aren't of a certain type and the black students who are admitted often have a lot of options, so they end up going elsewhere. There has been a lot of soul-searching over this, but not a lot of concrete action to make the university more appealing (in part because I think folks are at a loss as to how to change the culture there).<BR/><BR/>My alma mater (Northwestern) seems to have this problem as well, accepting blacks at a higher rate, but getting far fewer enrollments and ending up with a student body that is 4.5 percent black (which I think is actually better than when I went there, but I'm not sure).<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I bring it up just to say that admitting black students certainly is the necessary first step, but if a university really values a diverse student body, it needs to do more than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com