Gov. Mark R. Warner wants college students in the classroom, but not necessarily in the dorm.
Warner said he wants to move more aggressively to link the K-12 system to higher education.
“Thinking about them as two separate worlds is a huge mistake,” he said.
More economical alternatives include a K-13 system that includes one year of community college, he said.
Warner also expressed interest in programs that stretch students while they’re still in high school.
Under a relatively new agreement, if a student takes an advanced placement course and gets a certain score, that course credit will not only transfer to 62 of 65 two- and four-year colleges, but also count toward a degree requirement.
Warner painted a grim picture of the state’s ability to generate income, noting that the percentage of people with a college education in many parts of the state is “dismally low.”
Or are they discriminatory?
A study released yesterday by the [National Association of Scholars] showed that U.Va. discriminates in favor of black student applicants to the undergraduate school, according to David J. Armor, a professor of public policy at George Mason University, who conducted the study. The study was not related to the complaint filed against U.Va. by the father of the white student.
“What the study shows is that there’s an overwhelming preference given to black applicants at U.Va.,” said Armor, who is with the NAS, a Princeton, N.J., organization founded to fight political correctness in academia.
The study looked at high school grades, SAT scores and class rank at several schools. At U.Va., the study looked at data on 14,600 undergraduate applicants who applied to U.Va. in the fall of 2003. The study found that nearly 65 percent of all black applicants were admitted, compared with 36 percent to 38 percent for all other groups.
The study found that median SAT scores for all U.Va. admissions was 1350, compared with a 1026 average for admitted black students.
…Roger B. Clegg, general counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, said UVa and William & Mary were targeted because of “very severe discrimination.”
A black student who has an LSAT score of 160 and an undergraduate grade point average of 3.5 has a 95 percent chance of getting into UVa’s law school, Clegg said. The odds drop to 3 percent for a white student, he said.