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Why College Costs have soared


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2016 Sep 9, 5:49am   15,905 views  66 comments

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http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/americas-college-diversity-officers/499022/#article-comments
Good article and discussion

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You might ask: What do these administrators do?

Today’s New York Times offers one modest illustration. Over the past 18 months, the Times reports, 90 American colleges and universities have hired “chief diversity officers.” These administrators were hired in response to the wave of racial incidents that convulsed campuses like the University of Missouri over the past year. They are bulking up an already thriving industry. In March 2016, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education held its 10th annual conference in San Francisco. Attendance set a new record: 370. The association publishes a journal. It bestows awards of excellence.

As diversity officers proliferate, entire learned specialties plunge into hiring depressions. In the most recent academic years, job postings for historians declined by 8 percent, the third decline in a row. Cumulatively, new hirings of historians have dropped 45 percent since 2011-2012.

I anticipate the response: This only represents a tiny fraction of the growth among administrators! Diversity is important! Graduation rates among black university students have improved in recent years. Surely all these chief diversity officers are accomplishing something?

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62   MMR   2016 Sep 12, 10:09pm  

thunderlips11 is deplorable says

GI Bill should not be allowed to be used to access loans only for schools that have been operating for at least 30 years.

why are you now suddenly 'deplorable'?

63   bob2356   2016 Sep 13, 6:49am  

FP says

bob2356 says

I checked harvard, there are 6 russian students there.

Check again. This number is not correct. It should be obvious to anybody who has been anywhere near an Ivy League university.

The HIO office page does say it doesn't represent "official Harvard enrolment". But luckily we do have the official Harvard page from the prevost office. http://worldwide.harvard.edu/international-students-country-and-school-2013-14-0 That number is 34 for 2013/14. Not so luckily the number includes all 15 of schools at Harvard including all the the graduate schools (like medical, dentist business, law, etc.). It also says it double counts anyone enrolled in more than one school. So it's true we don't know the exact number of Russian students actually in Harvard college undergrad itself. But it probably very safe to say it is less than 34. That would be out of 21,000.

Where would you suggest I check since you feel that Harvard doesn't have the correct information about their own enrolments? I would think Harvard would actually know how many Russian students they have enrolled, but somehow you disagree. What exactly do you think would be a more accurate source than Harvard's HIO statistics web page or the Harvard prevost office? Where did you check that represents a more reliable source of information on Harvard enrolments than Harvard itself and why didn't you post the link to it?

I am all a quiver eagerly awaiting your information enlightening us how many there really are.

64   bob2356   2016 Sep 13, 6:50am  

MMR says

hunderlips11 is deplorable says

GI Bill should not be allowed to be used to access loans only for schools that have been operating for at least 30 years.

why are you now suddenly 'deplorable'?

Because he's voting for trump. Hillary says so

65   bob2356   2016 Sep 13, 6:55am  

drBu says

Many people in West have a romantic view of Russia that they get from Soviet times

What Soviet times? I read Russia times occasionally. Is that what you are talking about? It's not at all romanticizing, it's pretty gritty actually.

66   missing   2016 Sep 13, 7:43am  

bob2356 says

I am all a quiver eagerly awaiting your information enlightening us how many there really are.

I pointed out that the number that you stated - 6, is incorrect. The additional info that you came up with only corroborates my claim. Discussion over.

P.S. In my class in grad school, physics dept. ivy league university, there were 3 russian students. One became a prof at a top US university, two went to work for McKinsey - one in NYC, one in Moscow.

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