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Feb 3 18:06 UTC 2003

From a Jewish World Review article:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/leo.html
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A Harvard University Press book exploring a fairly narrow question-why aren't
there more black and Hispanic professors?-is about to take center stage in
the affirmative action debate. 

The book, "Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of
High-Achieving Minority Students," reports that roughly 10 percent of
high-achieving black and Hispanic college seniors want to become
professors-about the same percentage as whites. But only a small pool of
non-Asian minorities earn grades good enough to get them into graduate school.

And the study finds that affirmative action is making things worse: It steers
minority students to selective colleges where they are underqualified and
likely to get lower grades. The low marks make them less likely to attend
graduate school. They also erode students' confidence, often convincing them
that they aren't suited for academic careers. 
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