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Obama Stops Colleges From Investigating Criminal History

Mike

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The Obama administration has ordered the nation’s colleges and universities to stop asking applicants about criminal and school disciplinary history because it discriminates against minorities. Institutions are also being asked to offer those with criminal records special support services such as counseling, mentoring and legal aid once enrolled. The government’s official term for these perspective students is “justice-involved individuals” and the new directive aims to remove barriers to higher education for the overwhelmingly minority population that’s had encounters with the law or disciplinary issues through high school.

Instructions are outlined in a cumbersome document (Beyond the Box) issued by the U.S Department of Education (ED) this month. It says that “data show plainly that people of color are more likely to come in contact with the justice system due, in part, to punitive school disciplinary policies that disproportionately impact certain student groups and racial profiling.” Because education can be a powerful pathway to transition out of prison and into the workforce, it’s critical to ensure that admissions practices don’t disproportionately disadvantage justice involved individuals, the directive states. Colleges and universities should also refrain from inquiring about a student’s school disciplinary history—including past academic dishonesty—because that too discriminates against minorities. Civil rights data compiled by ED show “black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students and often for the same types of infractions.”

Therefore colleges and universities should consider designing admissions policies that don’t include disciplinary history so they don’t have the “unjustified effect of discriminating against individuals on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion and disability,” the new ED guidelines state. Three out of four colleges and universities collect high school disciplinary information and 89% of those institutions use the information to make admissions decisions, according to the order.
 

Traveler

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It looks like there's a whole lot of colleges and universities you wouldn't want to send your Freshman off to, to have to live in a dorm, with all of the Hope and Change that's happened in the last few years, and now this. I'd be surprised if online classes weren't becoming more the norm all the time.
 

loomixguy

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Mike said:
loomixguy said:
Well, THAT just threw the recruiting door wide open for the SEC.

How DID Lawrence Phillips get accepted to UNL? Seriously!!!!

Why are you obsessed with a dead man that last wore a Husker uniform a generation ago? He the baby daddy to someone you know? Or are you grasping at straws to discredit Nebraska football, and he's the best and most current you got? Get over it and get relevant. I'm sure a Google search of SEC football players currently incarcerated would provide interesting reading....and be more current than LP.
 

loomixguy

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Dominance of what? Cheating? Criminal activity? Here's a little tidbit, Mikey....the only way to go when you're on top...is DOWN.

But what's really telling is your obsession with a dead man whose last college game was almost 25 years ago. No mention from you of Saban's boys who got their tit in the wringer on drug and weapons charges, or Art Briles just getting axed at Baylor. Must be a little too current for your agenda.
 

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