And I don't want to hear shit about it
Quote of note:
The admissions office already uses some nonacademic criteria to evaluate applicants, including students' creativity, community involvement and integrity.
Admissions officials stressed that the majority of admissions would be based solely on superior academic performance, and all admitted students would be qualified.
UGA: Let race count
Diversity would be one factor in admissions policy
By KELLY SIMMONS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/01/04
ATHENS — The University of Georgia could return to using race as a factor in freshman admissions as early as next fall.
A faculty committee has recommended adding diversity criteria, including race and ethnicity, to its admissions policy in time for selecting the fall 2005 freshman class.
It would be the first time in five years that UGA would be using race in admissions decisions. The university abandoned its previous race-conscious policy in 2001 after a federal judge ruled the practice unconstitutional.
However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that schools could use race as a factor in admissions as long as it was not the sole criterion.
Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the American Council on Education, said the proposed UGA policy appears to meet the guidelines established by the Supreme Court ruling.
"This is wholly compatible with the majority opinion, which urges individual consideration, permits race as a plus factor and encourages schools to look at additional non-race-based factors," Steinbach said.
