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It has been vaguely asserted that "diversity is good. " If "diversity" is good, then homogeneity ought to be bad. It ought to be
It has been vaguely asserted that "diversity is good. " If "diversity" is good, then homogeneity ought to be bad. It ought to be
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2016-10-15
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It has been vaguely asserted that "diversity is good. " If "diversity" is good, then homogeneity ought to be bad. It ought to be very bad in the eyes of the higher education establishment that has fought so vociferously in behalf of diversity.
To gauge how uninterested many of America’ s leading colleges and universities are in genuine diversity, consider how homogeneous they’ ve become in recent years, in terms of the economic backgrounds of the students they recruit, admit, and enroll.
Between 2004 and 2006, virtually all the richest and most highly ranked universities cut the percentage of undergraduates from lower-income families who received federal Pell Grants. These highly rated universities(at least as measured by U. S. News & World Report)were reducing their Pell Grant percentages even as their endowments—the profits of "nonprofit" corporate universities—were surging.
For example, according to a new analysis by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, the University of Pennsylvania’s endowment grew by a third, to $ 5. 3 billion, during that two-year period. And yet, the percentage of Penn students eligible for Pell Grants dropped from 12 percent, to just 8. 8 percent.
But the "most troubling" aspect of this relentlessly inverse relationship between university wealth and the economic diversity of students is the longevity of the trend, the Journal’s report finds. Whether the time frame is 23 years, 13 years, or two years, America’ s richest and most highly ranked universities—and often the most aggressive ones in their defense of diversity—have become homogeneous by social and economic class.
How has this happened? As universities, particularly private ones, have become richer, they have paid more attention to building and maintaining costly empires driven by the desire to compete in the marketplace for prestige, where academic quality is measured by an annual fashion show called "America’s Best Colleges".
A weekly newsmagazine that claims to know a good college from a mediocre one is at the helm of this charade. In playing the rankings game, universities spend their money lavishly on "stars". Star faculty members, star buildings, star stadiums, star coaches, and star students. The worst offenders in essence bribe students with high SAT scores to enroll at their institutions and call the aid "merit" scholarships, knowing full well that the money most often goes to affluent kids from the suburbs who have attended the best high schools. Merit has little to do with it. It’s all about the show.
Many universities in America have become more homogeneous because they want______.
选项
A、to compete in the market for success
B、to be one of "America’s Best Colleges"
C、to have more money to spend on "stars"
D、to admit kids from the best high schools
答案
B
解析
根据第六段中的“…driven by the desire to compete in the marketplace for prestige,whereacademic quality is measured by an annual fashion show called‘America’s Best Colleges’”,B应为答案。
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