I intended to post this article a few months back. It touches on Jackson State's attempt to reach a 10% non black enrollment goal as a result of the Ayers v. Fordice decision in 2002. JSU is opening a satellite campus in a predominantly white town in MS in order to make their school more accessible to other racial groups. What are your thoughts on mandated diversity goals?
http://diverseeducation.com/article/50888/
I think that diversity for diversity's sake is worthless, but if these institutions embrace, encourage and facilitate diverse students interacting with other, this could be beneficial. But just to increase the number of a particular ethnicity of students does nothing without scaffolding beyond admittance.
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