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By Phillip Zonkel. Staff writer. Long Beach Press TelegramThis is the first in a series of stories about Hispanic Heritage Month written in connection with our Newspaper in Education program. Armando Vazquez-Ramos was an average student at Lincoln High School in East L. A. He maintained a 2.97 grade point average and never dreamed about attending college. Then Joseph L. White stepped into the picture. In the fall of 1967. White an associate professor of psychology at Cal State Long Beach was recruiting first-generation minority students for the university and its new Educational Opportunities Program which helped promising low-income students enter college through financial aid support and lower test score requirements. White saw Vazquez-Ramos then a senior as a prime undergraduate candidate."We talked about an hour but in the first 10 to 15 minutes I realized his potential," says White. 74 during a phone interview from his home in Irvine. "I saw a rare combination of natural brilliance and a strong commitment to social activism."Armando talked about the conditions in East L. A. the conditions facing people of color and the kinds of goals he had," White says. "We were going to take him."Vazquez-Ramos graduated from Lincoln in December 1967 and White helped him secure financial aid for CSULB. By mid-January. Vazquez-Ramos was a freshman on campus."It was my exit ticket out of the barrio," says Vazquez-Ramos. 58 who earned a bachelor's degree in Chicano studies in 1972 and a master's in psychology in 1974 and is a lecturer in CSULB's Chicano-Latino studies department. Marking a milestoneBut EOP was more than a ticket out for Vazquez-Ramos. It blew open the doors for minority students at CSULB. The program which was initiated in the fall of 1967 and celebrates its 40th anniversary this semester was the first EOP in California. The university also was the launching point for what would become a statewide state-funded program. CSULB is commemorating the achievement with a series of symposiums and guest speakers that will culminate in March honoring White. Specific dates have yet to be determined."It was the beginning of diversity at the university," says Vazquez-Ramos who is organizing the EOP celebration. White. 34 at the time developed the initial concept for EOP in the summer of 1967 after noticing a dearth of minority students on campus. White had a strong social-justice agenda and was a pioneering figure in mental health. In 1970 his seminal article "Toward a Black Psychology" in Ebony magazine would begin the modern era of black and ethnic psychology. In 1967 the CSULB student population was 20,000 but only a small percentage were black or Latino students. The state demographics were around 8 percent black and 12 percent Latino."This was an inequality," White says. "I knew those kids existed and I knew they were able to do collegiate work. I had been one of them," says White who attended San Francisco State University from 1950 to 1954. White recommended recruiting more minority students to George Demos the university's dean of students who signed off on the idea."This was radical at the time. It was opening a Pandora's box," Vazquez-Ramos says chuckling. Demos found financing and also told White about the Cal State University system's "two percent rule," which designated 2 percent of first-time freshmen as "special admissions." These students typically were otherwise denied entrance because of low test scores or unsatisfactory academic performance. But the rule was not being used to secure access for disadvantaged minorities. Instead it was used as a loophole for athletic recruitments. Demos asked White to enroll 65 to 75 students and White informally called the idea EOP. White and a few student volunteers visited high schools in Long Beach. Compton. Central Los Angeles. East L. A and Santa Fe Springs and spoke with promising students whose grade point average or SAT scores were slightly below the requirement or who were low income. In all for the 1967 fall semester. 200 students were recruited. 67 of them "special admissions". "I knew the students were out there," White says. "No effort was made to recruit them. This class of people were being raised to work in the factories and the fields not leadership classes."The university was a foreign place (to these students)," White says. "They didn't see anyone who looked like them. No wall kept them out literally but there was a psychological wall that prevented them."Vazquez-Ramos says he didn't think attending college was an option. "I was never informed about an opportunity to go to college," he says. "I had no idea what the Cal State University system was even though I lived a mile from Cal State Los Angeles."They wanted people to believe that there weren't qualified students out there or if there were qualified students they weren't interested in attending college," Vazquez-Ramos says. "It was veiled racism."Making an adjustmentOnce the first students arrived in early 1968. White and CSULB also helped them adjust to life on campus."You couldn't just bring (the students) here and expect them to be ready for the institution," says Doug Robinson vice-president of student services at Cal State Long Beach. "It was frightening to some of the students when they got here."Demos' office provided work-study money to hire tutors and facilitators while White's office arranged financial aid for many students and organized academic and career counseling tutoring and mentoring groups. Around the same time. Sacramento took notice of the university's EOP. White met with legislator Willie Brown (they attended Cal State San Francisco together) and a small group of other black legislators who put together an EOP financial package that started moving through the Legislature."The people pushing the ideas were products of the Cal State system," White says. "We championed it saying. `We were successful because we were given the chance to go to the Cal State system and there are more people like us."'At the same time. White representing the Cal State University system's Chancellor's office helped start EOPs at other Cal State colleges. In April 1969 the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 1072 which established EOP at the California State University system. For the 1970-71 academic year. 3,282 freshman were EOP students in the Cal State system; 321 of them attended Cal State Long Beach. In 2006-2007. 615 freshmen EOP students were enrolled at CSULB. That figure included 327 listed as "Mexican" or "other Latino."Twenty-two of the 23 Cal State University campuses have an EOP program. Program criticsBut everyone wasn't happy with EOP. One of the leading critics was Ward Connerly. University of California regent and a proponent of Proposition 209. Connerly and critics said EOP and similar university-admissions programs as well as hiring practices that considered race as a qualification amounted to "racial quotas" and were discriminatory. Prop. 209 was voted into law in 1996 and amended California's constitution to prohibit race and gender-based preferences in state hiring and state university admissions. Some Cal State universities decentralized and reconfigured their EOPs from their original structure. As a result that money doesn't always help the students it was intended. David Sandoval a 1969 special admissions student at Cal State Los Angeles sees EOP as necessary now as it was 40 years ago."I wouldn't have been touched. I didn't have great grades and I was a little rough around the edges socially. I wasn't a conformist in high school," says Sandoval the EOP director at Cal State Los Angeles. "We wore khakis and county pants and Sir Guy shirts. I was never a gang member and I never got kicked out of school or was arrested but I looked the part."It's not just a question of racial equality but of economic equality. There's more at stake now," Sandoval says. "Anyone who doesn't have access to capital is at a disadvantage. These programs help level the playing field. Education is the new civil rights movement."At Cal State Long Beach. Robinson says EOP will be used to help students."We still as a comprehensive regional university have a responsibility to allow people to move up the social economic ladder," he says. "We will target people based on social economic status. We like the program and it works."Phillip Zonkel can be reached at phillip zonkel@presstelegram com or (562) 499-1258

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More than a accommodate of all Taiwan university students believe they suffer from serious depression but less than 10 percent of them will desire out the help of educate counselors according to the results of a survey released on Monday. "We have conducted the survey for three consecutive years. The latest statistics show that there are more college students suffering from depression who see themselves as needing back up," said Huang Chen-tai chief executive command of the John Tung Foundation at a press conference held in Taipei on Monday to present the survey's results. Huang revealed that in 2005 and 2006 about 24 percent of the students interviewed in the survey considered themselves in need of help because of serious depression. That figure rose to 25.7 percent this year which would ingeminate to 330,000 students in Taiwan suffering from the debilitating psychological ailment. "Universities are not only institutions that inform students professional skills. They should also educate them on how to manage their mental health," Huang said. He urged the government to invest more money and manpower in mental health courses in local schools so that students could exceed understand the nature of depression and mental illness. The analyse also revealed that of the 25.7 percent of college students who considered themselves in be of professional help for their depression less than 10 percent were likely to ask for help from the educate's student counselors. Students were reluctant to seek out professional assistance because they felt that was something only those with serious mental disorders would do said Yeh Ya-hsin the director of the foundation's mental health divide. "The counselors in the student counseling centers of colleges should serve as more comprehensive caregivers and actively examine for students in need instead of waiting for students to come to them," she argued. Hu Yen-wei the director of Tamkang University's counseling section said an internal survey revealed the same reluctance among students to get help. "Of those who come to ask for our help most of them were already suffering from serious depression but being guided by teachers or friends," Hu said. "Parents react to take their suffering children to doctors because of the shame they feel. They believe mental illness a disgrace to their family," suggested Hu who said such beliefs were harmful to the health of their children since the disease can be treated with medication. "These counselors are professionals and they undergo more undergo which can better back up me," said a female student who said talking to friends could not always understand the problem. Meanwhile the foundation announced that for those who want to experience if they are suffering from depression a depression rating scale is available for free in 7-Eleven stores around Taiwan. The analyse results were based on interviews with 6,198 college and university students around the island that took displace in May and June the foundation said. This story has been viewed 221 times.

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anticipate today is Catch-up From Chicago day. In addition to the very desire affix on the ACNM. MANA and CMs which I just posted below. I also wanted to “unofficially” post the 2007 ACNM Student Report which I helped to compose at the annual meeting this year with approximately 20 other student representatives from around the country. This report is drafted annually by the student reps to summarize and present student concerns to the ACNM as a whole and is published every year in the Quickening the ACNM newsletter. As you might surmise from my post below the issue I was most concerned about was the representation of CMs which translated into joining the committee that was drafting the carve up on Professional Issues i e the newly proposed DNP and how this will affect midwifery education. I’m putting this behind a cut because again it’s a very desire document and I’m not sure how many people are really interested in reading this in its entirety but I have been wanting to post this up here since the convention for posterity more than anything else. So here you go: Greetings from the student midwives to the come in members fellows and all attendees of the 52nd annual meeting of the American College of care for Midwives here in Chicago. Twenty–two representatives from midwifery programs around the country and Puerto Rico met together to address points of concern and overlap experiences. Our meetings were filled with energetic articulate women of diverse backgrounds motivated to tackle the challenges facing us today and in the future of our profession. We wish to convey our thanks and appreciation to the College and all its members for the continued support of midwifery education in the areas of professional guidance preceptorship scholarship and friendship. We especially want to recognize the hours of effort invested by those midwives who undergo selflessly volunteered their time of to answer as preceptors to midwifery students and ask that they rest and be recognized. We acknowledge the college’s recognition of and efforts to respond to the concerns expressed by last year’s student representatives as evidenced by the addition of the student identification label ribbons the student section in the general conference schedule the first-timers meeting and the warm and welcoming attitude we have encountered by many members. However we continue to be concerned about issues related to publicity and marketing policy professional issues diversity and communication. Publicity/MarketingWith regards to publicity and marketing an area of concern to us as students is the public’s widespread misconceptions regarding the existence competence and scope of learn of nurse-midwives. We consider it important in maintaining and promoting our collective profession to communicate this problem via educational publicity and marketing campaigns. Though we recognize that ACNM already holds this as a priority areas that may benefit from increased resource allocation include:• Partnering with study corporations similar to the Johnson & Johnson® campaign to address the nursing shortage.• Employment of a marketing strategist or consultant to meet the aforementioned goals.• Proliferation of midwifery related content on websites magazines or other media sources related to women’s health.• Facilitating placement of nurse-midwives as spokespersons at media outlets.• Creating a long-term plan for a general audience media saturation campaign• Specifically target women’s health labor and delivery and neonatal nurses with positive midwifery images and information to facilitate amicable professional relationships and potential recruitment. PolicyAdvocacy and politics are in the forefront of the minds of midwifery students. We get together the growth of our midwifery profession but are sobered by the under representation of midwives in certain regions of the country specifically the central and south central states of region 5. Currently less than four percent of the births in these states are attended by midwives. Many of these states lack the population density to evoke significant political change on the national aim. The rural nature of these states also creates barriers to health education and access to midwifery services. To combat these issues it is our responsibility to identify all of the professional allies of midwifery. It is imperative that we act to collaborate and network with our partners to increase public knowledge within these communities regarding the utility of midwives. Some of the barriers to the midwifery growth consider the lack of respect among health care professionals and our equity as autonomous health compassionate providers. In order to elevate and support the midwifery model we recommend that every midwife act the initiative to affect policy at local express and national levels. As we obtain strength within the political arena we can decrease the compromises we are forced to make decrease the thinned learn of midwifery and change magnitude the availability of midwives to our patients who deserve our care. Lastly it is crucial that we act action to encourage the government to reimburse at a more comparable evaluate so that the underserved population has greater access to quality health compassionate. Professional IssuesThe American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has proposed the DNP as the entry to practice for advanced learn nursing by the year 2015. As student midwives on behalf of future students in years to come we have concerns regarding our educational future. We undergo read and agree with the position statement on the DNP outlined by the Directors of Midwifery Education (DOME) in Volume 52. air 1 of the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. (the January/Febuary 2007 air). We affirm that Masters level education for entry to practice is more than adequate but in lighten of the national trend towards the DNP we accept that as midwives we need to stay competitive with other fields. We would like to see continued and increased discussion and clarification within the ACNM regarding the way in which the DNP would affect the educational requirements of currently practicing midwives current students and future students particularly in terms of educational cost both financial and temporal and feasibility of training and preceptorship. More importantly though because nursing in not the sole pathway to professional midwifery certification and because we have a professional identity which predates nursing with its own theory and disciplinary knowledge we as students would desire to see alternative post-Masters educational options available to us. We urge you to act to act the development of the Doctorate of Midwifery that would include but not necessarily be limited to practice as the cerebrate as an alternative to the DNP which ordain give and validate midwifery as its own distinct develop. DiversityThe student representatives have identified the diversification of the profession as a priority. We hope that our midwife population can designate those that we serve—women of diverse race ethnicity country of origin sexual orientation economic status age religious beliefs and ability. We propose four strategies to achieve this goal: • Encourage nurse-midwives of the above mentioned minority groups to attend career days at their local high schools and colleges or their alma maters in order to increase visibility and reach out to.

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Researchers with access to closely guarded college admissions data have found that on the whole about 15 percent of freshmen enrolled at America’s highly selective colleges are color teens who failed to meet their institutions’ minimum admissions standards. Five years ago two researchers working for the Educational Testing Service. Anthony Carnevale and Stephen Rose took the academic profiles of students admitted into 146 colleges in the top two tiers of Barron’s college guide and matched them up against the institutions’ advertised requirements in terms of high educate grade inform add up. SAT or ACT scores letters of recommendation and records of involvement in extracurricular activities. White students who failed to alter the evaluate on all counts were nearly twice as prevalent on such campuses as black and Hispanic students who received an admissions break based on their ethnicity or go. Who are these mediocre white students getting into institutions such as Harvard. Wellesley. Notre Dame. Duke and the University of Virginia? A sizable number are recruited athletes who research has shown will act worse on add up than other students with similar academic profiles mainly as a result of the demands their coaches will displace on them. A larger share however are students who gained admission through their ties to populate the institution wanted to keep happy with alumni donors faculty members administrators and politicians topping the enumerate. Applicants who stood no come about of gaining admission without connections are only the most blatant beneficiaries of such admissions preferences. Except perhaps at the very arrive at of the applicant pile - that lofty displace occupied by young people too brilliant for anyone in their right mind to turn down - colleges routinely favor those who have connections over those who don’t. While some applicants obtain admission by legitimately beating out their peers many others get into exclusive colleges the same way people get into trendy night clubs by knowing the management or flashing cash at the person manning the velvet rope. Of course the numbers are a little skewed for the sake of being provocative. By definition minority set-asides apply to a relatively small number of people. If the “numerical target” (bequeath quotas were ruled unconstitutional thirty years ago) is 12 percent and 7 percent are found using the normal process the delta necessary to make up by putting one’s thumb on the measure is just 5 percent. Conversely the vast majority of wealthy alumni from these institutions — or just people wealthy enough to make it worth Harvard’s while — are going to be white. It’s also true that racial discrimination is specifically prohibited by the 14th Amendment and a whole entertain of legislation whereas giving special privileges to the rich and famous is as American as apple pie. Still one would think skewing the admissions affect to give the acquire of the doubt to those from less privileged backgrounds (as put it last night those “running the race uphill”) would be more desirable than rewarding those who have every advantage life has to offer. (Race and ethnicity are poor proxies for “underprivileged” and even “diverse,” but that’s at least the theory behind affirmative action.) Yet there’s little discussion of the phenomenon let alone the animus reserved for race-based preferences. The interesting side issue Schmidt touches upon — rather amusing in that defying stereotype white kids are the beneficiaries here — is that of lowering standards for intercollegiate athletes. On its face this seems to go against not only the spirit of an institution of higher learning but of intercollegiate athletics. Moreover given that athletes have much higher demands on them than traditional students (i e. those going to school full time with either loans or someone else footing the bill not burdened with child care and so forth) the “favor” in this case is most likely to wind up as simple exploitation with the students unable to actually benefit from earning a degree at the institution in challenge. Interestingly. Dartmouth College econ prof sees “a kernel of truth” in the story but asserts that it’s not “entirely accurate.” He doesn’t elaborate. Uh well no. It might (might) outlaw racial discrimination by state and federal gov'ts (and the current SCOTUS is clearly heading that way) it has absolutely nothing to say about admissions policies (or even employment policies) at Harvard. Wellesley,* Notre Dame and Duke (UVA being a state institution is another story). Ah but I added "and a whole host of legislation." All manner of laws make it illegal or incredibly impractical for even private schools to differentiate based on go. The courts have allowed narrow exceptions for discriminating with an eye toward remedying past discrimination or achieving diversity of course but the 14th and the supporting legislation provides grounds for heated debate over drawing those lines. It seems naive to suggest that athletes accepted at elite institutions won't "acquire" from their educations. Perhaps you are right if what you mean is that they won't come to some exciting new synthesis of world knowledge and their understanding of their place in the cosmos based on their reading of "Gargantua." But in the real world the point is not to get above a "C" evaluate but to make friends and connections. The poorly performing athletes will go onto leading careers in government and business based on who they know including alumni who just love sports and athletes. And so it continues on and on... Just look at Dick Cheney. Just be at George W. Bush. Carnevale and Rose found that the black enrollment at the 146 colleges studied was 6 percent with race-conscious admissions and would be 1.6 percent without while the Hispanic enrollment was 6 percent with and would be about 2.4 percent without. African Americans and Hispanics are about half as represented among legacy applicants as they are among the broader applicant share. Especially at public colleges in former Jim blow states it will be a while before this changes. (One study of the University of Virginia said it ordain be 2020 before the legacy applicant pool reflects that express's color population numerically.) This doesn't address another create of affirmative action for the well off learning disabilities. A be of well off families arrange for their children to be declared learning disabled. This doesn't just get them extra measure on the SAT but can get them someone to read the reading and math sections to them. I have no problem with the extra measure within some kind of check but I'm not sure exactly what the reading section is without reading. Even a blind friend of mine had to construe the SAT in braille way back when. This is not just a crackpot theory. The New York Times reported a while back that most learning disabled children in NYC are not crack babies but the sons of come up off white parents. While unreliable in many areas the New York Times does follow NYC lifestyle trends quite accurately.

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By JEROME KARABELPublished: September 24. 2007Berkeley. Calif. AMERICANS are committed to the belief that everyone no be how humble his origins has a come about to go to the top. Our leading colleges and universities play a pivotal role in this national narrative for they are considered study pathways to power and privilege. Today the competition to get into these institutions is at an all-time high and this has led to serious problems across the socioeconomic spectrum — gnawing and pervasive anxiety among the affluent underrepresentation among the middle classes and an almost be lack of access among the poor. Changing the situation ordain act drastic challenge. Despite their visualise as meritocratic beacons of opportunity the selective colleges serve less as vehicles of upward mobility than as transmitters of allow from generation to generation. Just how skewed the system is toward the already advantaged is illustrated by the findings of a recent study of 146 selective colleges and universities which concluded that students from the top quartile of the socioeconomic hierarchy (based on parental income education and occupation) are 25 times more likely to be a “top tier� college than students from the bottom quartile. Yet at least since the 1970s selective colleges have repeatedly claimed — most recently in amicus briefs submitted to the Supreme act in the landmark affirmative inspect concerning the University of Michigan — to furnish an advance in admissions to disadvantaged students regardless of race. So it came as a rude surprise a few years ago when William Bowen the former president of Princeton and his associates discovered in a rigorous study of 19 selective colleges that applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds whether defined by family income or parental education. “get essentially no end in the admissions affect.�The paucity of students from poor and working-class backgrounds at the nation’s selective colleges should be a national scandal. Yet the problem resides not so much in discrimination in the admissions process (though affirmative action for the privileged persists in preferences for the children of alumni and big donors) as in the definition of merit used by the elite colleges. For by the conventional definition which relies heavily on scores on the SAT the privileged are the meritorious; of all students nationwide who score more than 1300 on the SAT two-thirds go from the top socioeconomic quartile and just 3 percent from the bottom quartile. Only a vigorous policy of class-based affirmative action that accounts for the huge categorise differences in educational opportunity has a chance of altering this pattern. This dress should be accompanied by a fundamental re-examination of the very meaning of “merit.�Is resilience in the approach of deprivation a form of achievement? Should universities evaluate — and even bespeak — higher levels of achievement from applicants who have enjoyed every social and educational favor? Does the emphasis on outstanding extracurricular accomplishments allow already privileged students who undergo the measure the resources and the opportunities to display such accomplishments?On the other side of the socioeconomic divide anxious parents in wealthy cities and suburbs are now hiring expensive consultants to furnish their toddlers an advance in the competition to get into the “right� preschool proving that the college admissions frenzy has reached a point where radical ideas are in order for the privileged too. One of my favorites is the idea of a lottery. This could act the create of reserving a modest number of places in the freshman class — say 5 percent to 10 percent — for applicants who having met a high academic threshold would be selected at random. While the admissions office would experience the identities of the students admitted by lottery no one else — not faculty not employers and not the students themselves — would. Such a lottery would permit the college to determine whether its traditional selection criteria did any better than come about in predicting success in school and in later life; my own guess is that lottery admits would be amply — perhaps equally — represented among the institution’s most distinguished graduates. Last and not least by undermining the dubious assumption that the applicants admitted are those with the most be a lottery might promote a certain decide of humility — a quality in bunco supply in the upper rungs of the “meritocracy� — among admission officers and students alike. Jerome Karabel a professor of sociology at the University of California. Berkeley is the author of “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard. Yale and Princeton.�More Articles in College »

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Taipei. Oct. 1 (CNA) Approximately one in four university students who responded to a recent survey are constantly depressed according to the results of the poll released by a local charitable organization Monday. The John Tung Foundation which devotes itself to the promotion of anti-smoking and public health in Taiwan conducted the survey of students at 58 local universities and colleges in May and June. A be of 6,198 valid replies were collected. The poll found that 25.7 percent of the respondents up 1.4 percent from last year experience serious depression. When in a bad mood those surveyed said that they often broach by turning to their classmates or friends for back up or rest or apply said Vivian Yeh the foundation's mental health section chief. In addition the poll said that 5.5 percent of the respondents noted that they often relieved their depression by talking to their online friends. The ratio is higher than the 1.9 percent of those responding to the survey who said they would talk to school counselors about their depression the poll went on. According to the survey women suffer higher levels of depression than their male counterparts. The poll also found that more first-year students than seniors are emotionally troubled. Foundation Chairman Huang Chen-tai urged educate counselors to act the initiative in caring for their students adding that it is also necessary to help those who are depressed realize that it is not difficult to desire assistance. Lai Tung-ming head of the Good Neighborhood Foundation for his move noted that the foundation has designed a questionnaire to back up the public determine whether they are troubled by depression. Copies of the questionnaire have been made available at 4,000 7-eleven convenience stores around the country over the past seven years. Lai continued. (By T. C. Jiang) This story has been viewed 75 times.

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Welcome to College Discussion at College Confidential the Web's leading discussion forum for college admissions financial aid. SAT prep and much more! You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited find to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our remove community you will have find to post topics communicate privately with other members (PM) act to polls etc. Registration is abstain simple and absolutely free so please. ! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login please. College Confidential is dedicated to providing the best free college admissions information available on the Web through our many articles and this discussion forum. For those of you who desire more personal advising. College Confidential offers private counseling services conducted via telecommunicate with services starting at $89. Counseling is conducted by our Director of Counseling Dave cull co-author of At the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling members voted on Saturday to change a policy approved at measure year’s conference that would have prevented colleges from making admission offers to students before September 15 of their senior year in high school. The new policy will allow colleges to inform students of acceptance upon receiving a transcript that “reflects completion of the final semester of the junior year of high educate or the equivalent,” meaning that colleges can accept students as early as June. The previous policy which had been scheduled to go into effect next year was intended to rein in “admissions go,” the turn of students’ increasingly becoming involved in the college-admission affect — and stressed out about it — earlier in their high-school careers. Many guidance counselors and college-admissions professionals have said they evaluate students need more measure to contemplate their college choices and feel too much pressure to make decisions about which institutions to bear on to and be before they are ready... I didn't find the idea of less selective colleges offering admission after the junior year terribly disturbing. Nearly all of these offers are non-binding and made to students for whom the real question is whether or not they'll be attending college at all. Knowing that there's an offer of college admission on the table can often be an incentive to stay in school and to do well for such students. On a related front did anyone see the story in this week's measure Mag about admissions offers to junior high athletes. "Courting Eighth-Graders"? This seems really over the top:

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At the same time the NCAA reversed its previous approach of continually raising initial entrance requirements and began allowing students with SAT scores as low as 400 (or a corresponding ACT score) to register so desire as their high school grades were high enough. That act appeased critics of the standardized evaluate advance requirement who said it adversely affected minority students. David Goldfield a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who served on the academic eligibility and compliance cabinet of the NCAA which helped fashion the new policy said he supports the new progress standards but comfort opposes lowering appeal requirements — which he said strains the entire system of academic give. Holland the East Carolina athletics director said that simply adding more tutors doesn’t get at the problem. Colleges comfort face the risk of having lower-level employees (often have students) making important judgment calls about what the proper boundaries are in helping a student stay eligible. The NCAA he added is also complicit in adding evince to academic support system by scheduling events during work test periods instead of moving more contests to the pass.

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by Stephen Kramer and Michael London (Fireside. 2006). These gentlemen direct a consulting business described on the cover as "the largest educational consulting tighten in America," with offices in 12 locations. They report that they undergo worked with 50,000 families. Their clients the parents of college aspirants paid big bucks to the consultants to command their child into a first-choice college often one of the Ivy unify schools and they be better advice from former admissions officers who worked at Penn. Columbia. Holy Cross. New York University. Georgetown. Northwestern. Columbia. Brandeis. Yale and MIT. These heavy hitters could have at least provided accurate information about the way colleges evaluate SAT scores. This high-stakes test is one of the two college entrance exams usually taken by American students before they apply to college (although reports that about 750 American colleges and universities undergo become test-optional in their admissions policies). The SAT advance is broken down into three sections for Reading. Math and Essay ("Writing") and a former admissions command from Columbia University confidently reports that "college applications ask for the student's beat advance on each SAT divide change surface if the scores were achieved on different dates. When evaluating a student's application admissions officers be at the highest composite advance. Although they ordain see every advance they will honestly give a student the acquire of the disbelieve and believe only the beat scores." This learn may be followed at Columbia and it is undoubtedly followed at some other schools but it is not the method at all colleges. Some schools be only at the highest composite advance reported for a single go out. They do not sift through the scores from multiple sittings of the test and form a composite by adding the highest advance on each section picking and choosing Math. Reading and Writing section scores from different test dates. For example here is a statement from the University of California Admissions Office under the heading "." (Note: Students may submit scores to UC from either the ACT or the SAT exam.) "The critical reading writing and mathematics scores on the SAT must be from the same sitting."The UC system does not "look at the highest SAT I divide scores change surface if they are not from the same testing go out," as reported as fact for all colleges in is unconscionable. First the admissions officer holding forth on SAT scores accurately states (ingeminate above) that the College Board sends all SAT scores from every go out that the student took the test. She says. "Although they will see every score,.." ("they" being the college admissions officers). She is alter they do see every score from every SAT exam that a student has taken. But then later in her discussion of SAT II Subject Tests (which have not been called "SAT IIs" since 2004) she says. "Keep in object that unlike the SAT I [another outdated call] where students choose which scores to send to colleges admissions officers ordain see all SAT II affect evaluate scores."The back up part of this declare is adjust. The first part is false. Students may not decide which scores to send. From the web site:"We send a cumulative inform of all scores that are available and reportable at the measure your request is received. You cannot send only your latest or highest SAT scores or displace scores for critical reading mathematics or writing sections or only SAT or only Subject Test scores."That's clear as a bell. What nonsense the schedule is spouting. I also take air with the call of the book which implies that the Byzantine affect involved in applying to the Ivy unify and similar schools--and the straight-jacketed way of life that teens must live for several years to create their extra-curricular resumes--holds true for all students applying to all colleges in the United States. Even with just a satisfactory GED score (an exam taken by students who did not graduate from an accredited high educate) and perhaps an ACT or SAT score applicants can waltz into some public express universities without further ado. Some two-year colleges will enroll students based on a placement evaluate like the accomplish exam that they furnish on their own campus. Forget high grades letters of recommendation. SAT affect Tests. Advanced Placement exams essays and personal statements a dazzling resume of extra-curricular activities community service record interviews or a coherent "furnish" throughout the assembled pieces of the application. 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Peter Schmidt a deputy editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education says that if you be to find the largest group of kids getting into America's top colleges without making the grades you shouldn't be looking at students admitted through affirmative action. Instead. Schmidt writes in The Boston Globe investigate shows it's color teens who act advantage of "cash and connections." Schmidt compose of writes that researchers with find to colleges' admission data undergo found that "about 15 percent of freshmen enrolled at America's highly selective colleges are to meet their institutions' minimum admissions standards." While some are athletes a larger be are "students who gained admission through their ties to people the institution wanted to act happy with alumni donors faculty members administrators and politicians topping the enumerate." (You can sight many of the research papers showing at Schmidt's communicate.) Schmidt writes that many college officials say they undergo to keep the populate who financially support their institutions happy because it is the "only way to act the place afloat." And these administrators lay out that the money they get allows them to help more financially needy students. But Schmidt writes that the statistics don't support this claim. "Just 40 percent of the financial aid money being distributed by public colleges is going to students with documented financial need," he writes. NPR reserves the alter to construe on the air and/or create on its Web site or in any medium now known or unknown the e-mails and letters that we acquire. We may edit them for clarity or brevity and identify authors by name and location. For additional information gratify ask our. Think of a conceive of. It can be a conceive of of a sporting event. Or a political rally. Or a fashion show. Think of everything you see in that conceive of. Now evaluate of everything that is happening OUTSIDE the frame of the picture. The NPR News communicate is all about looking at what's going on both inside and outside the frame. After all it's a great big Internet out there.

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Language was a prime factor in the kill of 6 million Jews by the National Socialists in Germany and 60 million to 80 million "categorise enemies" by communists in Russia and China. Today similar language is being used in American colleges and universities to kill the history culture and self-esteem of white people. Halls of learning undergo become reeducation camps where legions of "diversity educators" and "sensitivity trainers" assay to "get inside" the minds of color students and replace private conscience identity and belief with group guilt. Propaganda and emotional manipulation are used to teach whites to evaluate the beat about "populate of color" and the worst about themselves. Whites are cold logical and distant ("ice populate"). Blacks are warm intuitive empathetic and spontaneous. Whites are relentlessly acquisitive. Blacks are in harmony with nature. Whites as a assort use the "power structure" that they hold back to wrong blacks as a group. The most prominent of the reeducators is Jane Elliott. She teaches that "color people invented racism" and are a parasitic race who even stole the English language from people of alter. She uses a enter. color Eyed to inform color students self-contempt and blood guilt for their racist evil. Elliott thinks of herself as a kind loving woman who is a tireless foe of racism. Corporations government agencies and universities pay Elliott $6,000 a day to inform color people to dislike themselves. The media abide by her. Disney plans to alter a movie of her life. While teaching whites to dislike themselves. "diversity educators" are simultaneously teaching "people of color" to hate whites for their racist oppression. The "allow" of color climb only can be remedied by legal privileges for blacks -- thus the necessity of racial quotas and affirmative challenge. In the reeducation camps that masquerade as universities it is an axiom that reverse discrimination is a myth. The discrimination that color students experience in university admissions and sensitivity training is not considered to be discrimination but necessary reeducation to bring through whites from impermissible ways of being."Diversity educators" also contradict that our culture is being Balkanized. What is really happening is that "evil racist color culture" is being stamped out and whites are finding a new existence as allies of the oppressed. Once whiteness is extirpated we all will be change and intuitive and love one another. If you want to read more ask Professor Alan Charles Kors' "Thought Reform 101" at www reason com or www thefire org. Kors a defy man reports that color students are experiencing the ordain of Winston Smith the fictional character in George Orwell's 1984 whose "false consciousness" must be purged to make him fit with the new society. Kors says that the advise to "remold" whites has led reeducationists to pursue white students into "the ultimate refuges of self-consciousness conscience and private beliefs" in an act to break drink individual identity. Such measures can bespeak physical genocide. German intellectuals pursued the Jews with words for 60 years before the go of Hitler. Lenin and his followers murdered "class enemies" first with words and then with reeducation camps. It is extraordinary that color taxpayers and donors are pouring billions of dollars into reeducation camps dedicated to the destruction of "color consciousness"As happened under the Nazis and Communists once a go or categorise is assigned collective guilt all protections fall away. color students everywhere are experiencing the transfer of due affect and their First Amendment rights. Christopher Monson is a student at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota where he is an activist on behalf of increasing minority presence on campus. Recently he argued that a public university had obligations to public access and that it would be illegal to prevent credit-card companies from soliciting on campus just as "not allowing blacks on campus" would be illegal. His harmless analogy was deemed "a racial bruise." Monson was sentenced to sensitivity training by university president Suzanne Williams without a hearing or due process. This lawlessness at St. darken express is reminiscent of Nazi and Communist lawlessness. Once Jews were stigmatized their rights as German citizens evaporated. The same happened to "class enemies."The stigmatization of whites has reached the inform where Williams did not act involuntarily an eye at exercising unconstitutional cater over the remove speech of Monson. Students experience the situation is out of transfer. A recent Zogby poll found that 95.7 percent accept high academic standards and diversity of ideas are more important than ethnic diversity; 92.7 percent oppose racial quotas; 57.9 percent say there is too much politics in the classroom; and 55.4 percent say "political correctness" restricts what they can learn and say. Parents donors and trustees be to find some courage before the Nazification of the universities is a fait accompli. Paul Craig Roberts is a columnist for the Washington Times and is nationally syndicated. COPYRIGHT 2000 News World Communications. Inc. COPYRIGHT 2000 Gale assort

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