Posted on 12/31/2013 8:00:02 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- Even without Photoshop, colleges try to shape the picture they present to prospective students, says Tim Pippert, a sociologist at Augsburg College in Minnesota.
"Diversity is something that's being marketed," Pippert says. "They're trying to sell a campus climate, they're trying to sell a future. Campuses are trying to say, 'If you come here, you'll have a good time, and you'll fit in.' "
Pippert and his researchers looked at more than 10,000 images from college brochures, comparing the racial breakdown of students in the pictures to the colleges' actual demographics. They found that, overall, the whiter the school, the more diversity depicted in the brochures, especially for certain group
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That’s ok. My textbook for my viticulture class (vineyards) had all white faces in it. All the students in the class were white as well. Hardly a representation of the reality of the vineyard industry.
Colleges fake brochures to push diversity-
‘I saw my head cut off and kind of pasted onto the front cover’
http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/colleges-fake-brochures-to-push-diversity/#57d6Xftlomvh5dS8.99
goes well with our fake economy and fake president
It would be awesome if Looter Guy showed up in the brochure... and turned out to be your college roomate.
free beer for 4 years!
I don’t think colleges are any worse that most big businesses. Take a look at advertisements you see.
The “real” looter guy is Clown Prince nobama.
Better than worry about stupid stuff like their academic record. /s
Central Pennsylvania is something like 0.2% black. Penn State always struggles to recruit black kids because frankly they just don’t want to go up there.
My college did that. The same one black guy who attended there appeared 3 times in every brochure.
Of course, if the school DIDN’T place minority faces in the brochure in a prominent manner, they would be attacked for not reaching out to minorities.
“My college brochure showed everyone either working in some super high-tech laboratory or hanging out on the green with my diverse group of friends”
- Can’t remember who said that.
What strikes me as extremely funny are the home security commercials...It’s always a WHITE guy breaking in the house...*ROFL*
It’s not just colleges. Look at recruitment brochures that businesses put out - the people pictured tend to be young (with possibly a token older “mentor” type, usually an ethnic minority or woman - or both) and a mix of non-whites and females.
Diversity never produces the best. Only the BEST produce the BEST. Hoping for that first Amish NFL coach are we????????????? LOL!
I guess the real question here is who really picks a college for its “diversity?”
“Free” minus the cash he loots from your wallet.
My daughter is a high school senior, and needless to say, we’ve been inundated during the past year with college brochures. Most of them feature pictures of happy-looking students at work or play, and yes: on average, they tend to be dominated by images of black women, white women, and Hispanic-looking males.
The Office- Diversity Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK-Cf9R4q-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PopWnOuuqO8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idNDrOUWVwQ
My son is looking at engineering colleges. The makers they send feature an overwhelming preponderance of young ladies. As if boys are not really welcome. It infuriates my wife
I got “Diversity” messages, photo ops, articles, etc all over alumni sites, brochures, dignitaries in town, etc. Then I see commencement speeches by Uppity Whites about it. Blah blah blah . .
And yet the stats still show underperformance. Just leave it alone, let the qualified ones come, do their best but no begging, no phoniness, no hypocrisy, no special help. All you’re doing is alienating others and creating false senses of self worth and Lookitme !
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