Word: dusters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Duster conducted a two-year study, "Project Diversity," in which he studied relations between different minority groups on campus...
Berkeley is a highly selective school that attracts many more qualified applicants than it is able to accept. In addition to academic record, cultural background is considered by the admissions committee, Duster says. The median grade point average (GPA) for white and Asian admittees is 4.0. The median GPA for Black and Hispanic admitees...
...Duster says that minority applicants are clearly qualified to attend Berkeley. But he says media coverage has portrayed this as a problem--and popular writers like Dinesh D'Souza and George Will don't realize that affirmative action is not affecting the quality of the student body...
...Most of my colleagues don't know it, either," Duster says. "The students believe that what's going on is that they're admitting less qualified students...
That belief, combined with miscommunication between white students and minority students, contributes to campus disunity, Duster says. The two groups arrive on campus, Duster says, with positive attitudes toward diversity. But they approach the subject very differently...