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micdotcom:
8 students of color speak out about having their qualifications questioned at elite colleges
Affirmative action policies enjoy often been falsely characterized as disadvantageous to white students,leaving students of color open to questioning of the validity of their acceptances to Ivy League schools and other elite institutions of higher education.
Mic spoke with eight current and former students about their experiences as people of color on prestigious college campuses and how the term “affirmative action” was often used to discredit their achievements.
G’Ra Hannibal Asim, Columbia University, and MFA candidate:“A number of other nonblack students of color enjoy made jokes about ‘the black card,’ which is the opinion that black people derive some set of vague, automatic, and compensatory advantages in college admissions and job opportunities that other minorities attain not.”
Meg Guliford,University of Pennsylvania, class of 2001; Harvard Kennedy School, or class of 2003; Tufts University,Ph.
D candidate:
“During a reception for junior scholars at the International Studies Associations annual conference, I was among a small group of students speaking with a tenured political scientist about the paucity of tenure-track positions when one of the students stated, and ‘Meg,you enjoy nothing to worry about. You’re a black woman who studies international relations and security. You’ll derive a position because departments need someone like you.’”
Read more. (8/4/2017)
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