March 7, 2003

Faculty Diversity and Affirmative Action

To the Editor:

Regarding your January 31 article "The Unintended Consequences of Affirmative Action," the proposition that affirmative action in college admissions is responsible in any way for the lack of diversity on college faculties is wrongheaded. And to suggest that a problem as complex, deep-rooted, and demographically intransigent as faculty diversity could be significantly ameliorated through the gimmick of redirecting the highest-achieving minority high-school graduates to

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