Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Colorado Commission on Higher Education (diversity story)
Denver Post story:
A controversial University of Colorado-Boulder diversity plan was adopted by the governing board of regents Thursday despite the protests of a handful of students, including one who was escorted out of the meeting by security when he tried to address the board.
A diversity plan for all public colleges and universities is required by next month by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The CU plan doesn't set numerical goals for
graduating minority students for fear it could be construed as quotas and subject to reverse discrimination lawsuits.
TX_TX It also refrains from listing specific classes of people for protections based on criteria such as sexual orientation, religion or race - an 11th-hour deletion that angered students who said they were blind-sided by the move. Instead the plan ensures protection for "all people."
"This isn't a campus plan. It's a regents plan," said Tara Friedman, a CU-Boulder student body president. "It shows disrespect to groups facing institutional barriers. It doesn't address homophobia and racism. I don't know why they bother to have a diversity plan. I don't know how they can ask us to buy into this when they ripped all of our suggestions out of it." Students served on committees developing the plan wrote their own plan and picketed at regents' meetings over the past several months.
"I will support this with the understanding that "all people' means "all people,' including people of a sexual orientation other than our own," Regent Bob Sievers said. CU-Boulder students had long decried a plan without
numerical minority graduation goals as toothless. They note that the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to overturn a ruling that allows numerical goals in diversity plans. "They (the regents) are making public policy based on a yet-to-be-determined court decision," Friedman said. "That's weak, and it's not
leadership." The CCHE last year ditched its minority graduation
requirements (in most cases 18.6 percent by 2000 to reflect regional high-school graduation rates) in favor of a policy requiring schools to come up with their own plan.
Denver Post story:
A controversial University of Colorado-Boulder diversity plan was adopted by the governing board of regents Thursday despite the protests of a handful of students, including one who was escorted out of the meeting by security when he tried to address the board.
A diversity plan for all public colleges and universities is required by next month by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The CU plan doesn't set numerical goals for
graduating minority students for fear it could be construed as quotas and subject to reverse discrimination lawsuits.
TX_TX It also refrains from listing specific classes of people for protections based on criteria such as sexual orientation, religion or race - an 11th-hour deletion that angered students who said they were blind-sided by the move. Instead the plan ensures protection for "all people."
"This isn't a campus plan. It's a regents plan," said Tara Friedman, a CU-Boulder student body president. "It shows disrespect to groups facing institutional barriers. It doesn't address homophobia and racism. I don't know why they bother to have a diversity plan. I don't know how they can ask us to buy into this when they ripped all of our suggestions out of it." Students served on committees developing the plan wrote their own plan and picketed at regents' meetings over the past several months.
"I will support this with the understanding that "all people' means "all people,' including people of a sexual orientation other than our own," Regent Bob Sievers said. CU-Boulder students had long decried a plan without
numerical minority graduation goals as toothless. They note that the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to overturn a ruling that allows numerical goals in diversity plans. "They (the regents) are making public policy based on a yet-to-be-determined court decision," Friedman said. "That's weak, and it's not
leadership." The CCHE last year ditched its minority graduation
requirements (in most cases 18.6 percent by 2000 to reflect regional high-school graduation rates) in favor of a policy requiring schools to come up with their own plan.
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