Diversity vs. standards at Uni
Dana and I have interviewed Patton and Kovacs for an article about diversity vs. standards at Uni, and we have basically found that they’re claiming that standards are not being compromised for achieving diversity (minorities, and low-income students), which is fine but I think it means that that we should change the focus of the article.
Instead we should write about this from the perspective of the changes to application for incoming students. The essay questions are difficult/harder and the teacher recommendations are different and discuss how diversity is now a larger priority with Patton when it comes to admissions than it was with previous directors.
Patton and Kovacs both raised interesting points that they wouldn’t ever accept a student to fill a “diversity quota” who they didn’t think could graduate. Sarah’s doing a really interesting story about GPAs of minorities and how in the ’80s there was a surge of kids who weren’t qualified who got accepted, and I think that would tie in really nicely.
— Shivani Khanna