Can Colleges Have Equality in Admissions and Excellence Too?

 

written by STEVE ULRICH your must-read briefing on what's driving the day in NCAA Division III >> Hello Wednesday. Ready for this one - today is the 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson's Thriller album. >> Thanks for reading D3Playbook. Please refer a friend or two. Help me get to 2,000 subscribers by the end of the month.   A free subscription to D3Playbook. Yes, please. TOP STORY 1. Can Colleges Have Equality in Admissions and Excellence Too?   by John Thelin, Washington Post "The Supreme Court is considering how prestigious universities make admissions decisions. The plaintiff, Students for Fair Admissions, challenged both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University in their respective uses of race-conscious criteria in rating undergraduate applicants. The volatile cases seem to confirm that Americans agree that a college education is important — while disagreeing on who should be admitted and why. The case resurrects an American dilemma first posed in 1961 by John Gardner, president of the Carnegie Foundation, when he asked, “Can we be equal and excellent, too?” The question was urgent because the United States had unprecedented resources for higher education that coincided with growth in the number and diversity of students who were considering their educational prospects. In 1910, for example, 5 percent of American 18-year-olds pursued education beyond high school. A half-century later, the United States was poised to expand this to 50 percent. But without thoughtful policies, access alone would not resolve unequal access for students across categories of race and income." >> Background: "As the number of students who applied to college jumped in the early 1960s, it sparked debates on how the college admissions process ought to work and who should be admitted. Civil rights initiatives and court decisions like the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling made exclusion by race illegal in public educational institutions, and the 1965 Higher Education Act expanded access to education for minority groups, especially African American students, by providing federal financial aid to make college more affordable." >> Reality Check: "Statistical research armed college admissions officers with a confidence in rankings of students based on their grades, test scores and other demographic criteria such as geographic residence, type of secondary school, gender and family income. The databases allowed them to compare an applicant with other students nationwide. One consequence was that a cohort of colleges became more selective. The admissions office at these selective colleges now had the analytic tools to create each year what deans hailed as “The Best Class Yet.” >> Read More A MESSAGE FROM MORNING BREW   2.6 million people wake up to this newsletter every morning There's a reason over 2.6 million people start their day with Morning Brew - the daily email that delivers the latest news from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Business news doesn't have to be dry and dense...make your mornings more enjoyable, for free. Check it out! Powered by Swapstack SWIMMING 2.   Emory, Kenyon Top Polls The Emory men and Kenyon women remain atop the latest CSCAA Division III swimming rankings. Men Emory (14) Kenyon (6) Johns Hopkins Chicago Denison New York U. Washington U. MIT Carnegie Mellon Pomona-Pitzer Women Kenyon (16) Emory (4) Chicago Williams Denison Johns Hopkins Tufts New York U. Pomona-Pitzer MIT >> Complete Rankings WRESTLING 3.   Knights Of The Round Circle Wartburg sits atop the most recent NWCA team rankings with arch-rival Augsburg coming in second. Wartburg Augsburg UW-La Crosse North Central (Ill.) Stevens John Carroll UW-Whitewater Coe TCNJ Wabash >> Complete Team Rankings D3wrestle.com released its latest individual rankings as well. 125: Riley Parker, Washington and Lee 133: Robbie Precin, North Central 141: Zaren Terukina, Wartburg 149: Mike Conklin, TCNJ 157: Tyler Shilson, Augsburg 165: Nate Lackman, Rhode Island College 174: Zane Mulder, Wartburg 184: Shane Liegel, Loras 197: Ben Kawczynski, UW-La Crosse 285: Donovan King, Olivet >> D3wrestle,com individual rankings A MESSAGE FROM TRENDS     Your next business idea, delivered weekly.   Trends tells you the next big thing – months before everyone else. 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TRANSACTIONS 5.  Comings and Goings   ALFRED - Mike Honeycutt named head women's volleyball coach BRYN MAWR - Molly Gilbert named assistant lacrosse coach FONTBONNE - Maria Buckel resigned as vice president of athletics  MARIAN - Dan Moriarty named head men's lacrosse coach MACALESTER - Josh Roy named associate head men's soccer coach PLYMOUTH STATE - Ryan Joy will step down as head women's soccer coach at the end of the academic year   Thanks for starting your day with us.  What did you think of today's newsletter?  Please invite your friends to sign up for D3Playbook

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