The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 29, 2011, 5:31 pm
By Richard Kahlenberg
Yesterday morning, I participated in a panel discussion at New York University on admission preferences for legacy candidates with Jeffrey Brenzel, dean of admissions at Yale, and Dan Golden of Bloomberg News. Ann Marcus from the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy at NYU moderated. (Jenny Anderson has a write up in The New York Times‘ “Choice” blog here).
Brenzel, to his credit, gave only a qualified defense of legacy preferences and provided some interesting data about the substantial decline in legacy admissions at Yale over time. In 1939, he said, legacies (defined as children of Yale college graduates) made up 31.4 percent the enrolled class at Yale. Today, they make up 8.7 percent. (Including the children of Yale alumni of professional and graduate schools adds a few percentage points to these totals.)
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
New Title IX Rules Directly Hit Harvard and Yale
Women's ENews By Wendy Murphy WeNews contributing editor Thursday, April 14, 2011 It's hard to exaggerate the importance of the new advisory that the White House put out last week about the application of Title IX to tougher college standards on sex assault. A sports-equity law can now be used to combat sexual violence. WOMENSENEWS)--It's Sexual Assault Awareness Month and for the first time since President Barack Obama took office, I'm celebrating his administration for finally doing something about violence against women. After a whole lot of nothing for three years, Vice President Joe Biden last week announced a new "advisory" under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination, including sexual assault, in education. This makes Title IX far more than a sports-equity law. The advisory is meant to compel university officials to do a better job responding to sex crimes on campus; an important concern given that 1-in-5 students is victimized while in college. Full Story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/law/110413/new-title-ix-rules-directly-hit-harvard-and-yale
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