[cs_edworkers] Black and Latino admissions at CUNY - important article + commentsFW: HUNTER-L Digest - 9 Jan 2015 to 13 Jan 2015 (#2015-2)
- From: S_ AN <s_an@xxxxxxx>
- To: CSEW-new <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:27:18 -0500
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/01/when-high-achievers-have-no-place-to-go/384451/
Also see comments below, posted to HUNTER-L (Hunter College faculty and staff
listserv) by some well-known left/liberal faculty members. SJ
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:57:00 +0000
> From: Sarah Chinn <sarah.chinn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Atlantic article on CUNY admissions
>
A terrific article that confirms what we have been noticing informally about
changing patterns in enrollments at Hunter.
> http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/01/when-high-achievers-have-no-place-to-go/384451/
>
> Sarah E. Chinn
> Chair, English Department
> Hunter College, CUNY
> 695 Park Avenue
> New York, NY 10065
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> sarah.chinn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:30:06 -0500
> From: Stuart Ewen <drstu@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Atlantic article on CUNY admissions
>
> Dear Sarah:
>
> Thanks for sharing this. The story reveals some of the bitter truths that
> linger beneath the PR gloss that has shielded CUNY from serious criticism in
> the age of Matt Goldstein and Benno Schmidt.
>
> Having taught at Hunter for 37 years, I’ve seen the unravelling of the
> promise first hand. I hope others will pass on links to this article.
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:58:51 +0000
> From: Thomas Angotti <tangotti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Atlantic article on CUNY admissions
>
> Sarah, Thanks for sharing this article. This is an issue we should be
> addressing in our discussions among faculty and with students. It gets at
> the heart of our mission.
> Tom Angotti
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:56:13 +0000
> From: John R Wallach <jwallach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Atlantic article on CUNY admissions
>
> It's so sad to see how CUNY, once a leader in promoting equal educational
> opportunity, has become a laggard; how efforts to produce greater
> "excellence" are based on short-sighted estimates of students' abilities as
> well as narrow, discredited metrics; how the leadership of the beacon of
> public higher education in the country has kowtowed to private interests
> instead of dedicating itself more fervently to raising more public money for
> the university. But we have just enough diversity to look great on subway
> ads!
>
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