Summary
It seems that the university is striving mightily to make [E. Gordon Gee]'s vision - a vision he shares, quite laudably, with former OSU President Karen Holbrook - a reality. After a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision severely crimped the ability of OSU and other public colleges to use race as a "tipping factor" in the admissions process, OSU initially suffered a 28 percent decline in the applications of African-American students the next year, and the overall enrollment of minority students began to dip.
The university has taken a number of steps to not only increase diversity, but support the African American students already enrolled, including creating a hotline for African-American students to report instances of racially-hostile treatment and its nationally-recognized Todd Bell Resource Center for African-American male students.See the full content of this document
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Excellence - and Diversity - at Osu
When it was announced that Dr. E. Gordon Gee had returned to the Ohio State University as president, he was asked if there was a tension between the...
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