Posted on 05/19/2014 11:32:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Butler University has awarded endowed scholarships on the basis of race and gender, The College Fix has learned.
Butler removed the listing of all endowed scholarships, totaling approximately $2.4 million, from the university website before the 2013-2014 school year after inquiry from a parent of a prospective student.
The Scholarships
The “race-conscious” scholarships Butler has offered include scholarships that are only awarded to African-American students, an award limited to “a female student of Hispanic descent,” an award limited to “a woman of Indian descent” (unless Butler cannot find one) and an award that declares, “Preference will be given to Caucasian undergraduates enrolled in the College of Business.” The whites-preferred scholarship was created after the benefactor’s wife died in 2002, according to literature from Butler’s College of Business.
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Exactly!! Be indignant and make them prove otherwise. I thought self identity was whatever you say it is now.
If they challenge you, just shout “are you oppressing me?!”
“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
This university needs to be monitored for racial insensitivity ~ better let Mooch know about this. /s
All parents should assign a minority status to their child’s race at birth. What are they going to do when EVERYONE is a minority?
That’s probably the only way this BS is ever going to end.
there have always been scholarships with donor-designated ethnic or religious beneficiary groups.... these have gotten by....been accepted for the most part...because the vast bulk of scholarship money is not so designated
however, sometimes things do operate differently. Some time back (admittedly in the Paleolithic Era) a major university reserved ALL of its scholarship money (at least in one key professional school) to one designated minority race, only. White needn’t apply. When you asked, they merely said it was “by vote of the faculty”
so, these sort of things do need to be watched....
I may appear to be a straight, white, male; but I IDENTIFY as an omni-racial, tetra-sexual, mega-gendered, macro-disabled victim of pre-traumatic-stress syndrome, and I want ALL the special treatment, scholarships and other free crap to which persons identifying themselves as such are entitled to.
I know. Been thinking about that.
When are they going to stop persecuting us Anglo-Saxon-Palatinate-Irish-Celtic-Pictish-Anabaptist-Druidics anyway, ya know?
It’s just evil.
Now gimme somea dat free cash!!
Either racial discrimination is acceptable or it is not, there is no middle-ground where discriminating in favor of your favorite races is right and racial preferences for other races is wrong.
Race-exclusive scholarships are by their very nature racially discriminatory. You can’t be opposed to racism AND in favor of minority-only college scholarships, that’s by definition impossible. If you’re opposed to white scholarships and in favor of black scholarships, then by definition you’re a racist and likely a liar as well.
- Academic achievement
- Community Service
- Leadership potential
There’s only one other little small criteria…no whites allowed! Here is the full criteria to qualify for some of Bill and Melinda’s money:
Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they:
• Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;
• Are a citizen/legal permanent resident or nationals of the United States;
• Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale (un-weighted);
• Will be enrolling for the first-time at a U.S. accredited* college or university as a full-time, degree-seeking, first-year student in the fall of 2010; or GED
• Have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in community service, extracurricular or other activities;
• Meet the Federal Pell Grant* eligibility criteria; and
• Have all three forms (Nominee Personal Information Form completed by the student, Nominator Form completed by an educator familiar with the student’s academic record and a Recommender Form completed by a person familiar with the student’s leadership and community service) submitted by the deadline.
My son is from northern Russia. He has been in the United States since a few days after his first birthday and is an American citizen. He is of Scandinavian stock - light blond hair, blue eyes, etc.
But, since he was born in a small village in the foothills of the Ural mountains, the generally recognized boundary between Europe and Asia, I hereby declare that he is an ‘Asian-American’, and you all had BETTER treat him as such...
;-)
Sounds like the people of the ethnicity that they wish to exclude should stop sending their kids and money to that school.
Guess the United Negro College Fund will have to diversify too, eh?
what state ???
BoT
how typically male of you
at lest you are not racist. :)
Oh, they’ll exclude Asian-Americans as well.
And this:
The whites-preferred scholarship was created after the benefactor’s wife died in 2002, according to literature from Butler’s College of Business.
We may not like it. It may go against our idea of fairness, but if that is the wishes of the people putting up the scholarship money, the only real choices should be to (a)follow the express guidelines of the benefactor(s), or (b)return the endowment.
There are score of nationality and ethnic based scholarships out there ranging from $50 to several thousand. My daughter picked up a number of these for a little research and work. Those which are under $1000 or so do not have hundreds of competitors for every scholarship awarded and a good student actually has a fairly good chance of getting them.
I rewrote the provisions of my will to do just that.
“We *all* will be paying a dear price for this affirmative action crap. “
It will never ever be enough...
You won’t find many scholarships for which the criterion is being simply white, but white ethnic clubs, eg Italian, Lithuanian, and Polish, do give scholarships.
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