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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 01:43:01 JST StillIRise1963

   We need Affirmative Action back. The percentages of accepted Black college students have plummeted to the same levels of Black students as when I attended college.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 10:31:01 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • JustAFrog
     • GregB

     @StillIRise1963 @GregBryant @justafrog
     Macalester’s admissions folks — who for the record are one of the institutional groups who actually made me feel •better• after I got a glimpse of how the sausage gets made — similarly stated to us faculty a goal of maintaining the diversity of our class, and their confidence that they had tools to do that, without running afoul of SCOTUS. Early signs look good. We’ll see.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 10:31:02 JST StillIRise1963

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     • GregB

     @GregBryant @justafrog I work in college admissions. We tried to capture diversity, but not sure it worked. I don’t know the composition of this class yet.

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     GregB (gregbryant@historians.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 10:31:03 JST GregB

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     @justafrog @StillIRise1963
     At least some colleges have tried to work around SCOTUS's ruling that bans race-based affirmative action in college admissions. They have to work around it in weaselly ways, kind of ironically mirroring the right wing's attempts to conceal their racist purpose in gerrymandering. Of course some colleges may be glad of the change, but not all administrators and trustees are on that side of the fence. They're still trying to do the right thing.

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     JustAFrog (justafrog@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 10:31:05 JST JustAFrog

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     @StillIRise1963 College admission showing their whole ass.

     They only let in that many black people because they had to.

     Now that they no longer have to...

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 10:31:30 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
     • JustAFrog
     • GregB

     @Okanogen @StillIRise1963 @GregBryant @justafrog
     Sure, you’d just need a massive dataset from a non-racist society to train it on.

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     okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin (okanogen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 10:31:31 JST okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin

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     • JustAFrog
     • GregB

     @StillIRise1963 @GregBryant @justafrog
     Just spitballing, but I've had some long and interesting discussions about the inherent racism of #AI. Couldn't it be turned on its head for school admissions? Smarter people than me would have to figure out how.