HOW BOUT REPUBLICANS ON THE FACULTY?
IF YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT DIVERSITY, THAT IS
It's amazing that the only way that most people can talk about educational diversity is to talk about race. As if the quantity of melanin is the most important measure of who you are and what you believe.

Harvard: We are pleased the court has affirmed policies like ours that promote compelling educational interests in inclusiveness. We will continue to pursue those interests with energy and care.

Virginia Tech: We are pleased we can use race as a factor in achieving diversity.

Duke: Our admissions policies reflect the principle that the Supreme Court has reaffirmed, namely that student diversity is an essential component of higher education's quality.

Michigan: This is a resounding affirmation that will be heard across the land, from our college classrooms to our corporate boardrooms.

But a suprising statement comes from Colgate: We look at each student very uniquely and evaluate them qualitatively. So, certainly, race is important, [b]ut what part of the country that they come from and whether they're a cello player or a lacrosse player is important, too.

So, now we know that the important factors in becoming educated among a diverse student body are skin color, choice of symphonic stringed instrument, and your favorite native american influenced sport. I bet it would be more educational, from a diversity perspective, for a student at Duke or Michigan or Colgate to share a table in organic chemistry with some poor trailer park teenage mother from Arkansas with a criminal record.