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EPILive
A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute
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• Next Steps for Affirmative Action
• Friday, March 9, 2007
• Moderator Dr. Watson Scott Swail, Educational
  Policy Institute
• Guests Mr. Ward Connerly, President CEO of
  Connerly Associates, Sacramento, CA Founder
  Chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute
• Mr. Arthur Coleman, Partner, Holland Knight,
  LLC, Washington, DC

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• A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
• William G. Tierney
• University of Southern California
• Los Angeles, CA
• Friday, March 16, 1pm

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Mr. Ward Connerly
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Mr. Arthur Coleman
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Aspirations and Actions
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Impact of Demographic Shifts

• While the potential pool of high school
  graduates and college students will increase
  substantially, the only thing that will be
  traditional about this growing cohort will be its
  age. The nations college-age population will be
  even more ethnically diverse than the general
  population because of differential birthrates and
  migration patterns. Furthermore, the most rapid
  growth will occur among groups traditionally more
  likely to drop out of school, less likely to
  enroll in college preparatory course work, less
  likely to graduate from high school, less likely
  to enroll in college, and least likely to persist
  to earn a baccalaureate degree.
• -Sam Kipp, Executive Director, Edfund

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Backgrounder on Affirmative Action Diversity in
Higher Education
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Do we need affirmative action in higher education?
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From the web

• It will be very difficult, if at all possible,
  to have diversity at elite universities, like the
  University of California, without the mechanism
  of affirmative action.
• - Richard Atkinson, former president, University
  of California

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• According to Atkinson, there are three methods to
  increase minority enrollment
• Accept more students based only on their high
  school grades
• Use admissions policy more flexibly.
• Focus its high school preparation programs more
  on Blacks.

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• Connerlys response
• oblivious to the racially demeaning character of
  their method of achieving racial diversity.
• Consigning generations of Black children to a
  status of academic underachievers.
• Reasonable to characterize this as a racially
  fatalistic, if not outright racist, mentality.

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Next Week

• A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
• William G. Tierney
• University of Southern California
• Los Angeles, CA
• Friday, March 16, 1pm

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EPILive
A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute