Reading Questions for 4/17

1. Why do we place so much value on graduation rates as a measure of a college’s success if they don’t tell us the whole educational picture?
2. Do the educational benefits of diversity validate the idea of a quota system?
3. Could an institution’s mission affect how that institution approaches the demographics of its student body?
4. How does gender affect the idea of diversity and an institution’s quota system?
5. Affirmative action has the potential to push students of a certain group to institutions that they aren’t academically ready for, thus creating a problem not in access to higher education, but completion. How could admissions be changed to combat this “false sense of opportunity”?