Not So White Noise About Diversity

by E Wayne Ross on February 25, 2009

Inside Higher Ed: Not So White Noise About Diversity

A faculty report has stirred some racial tensions at Sonoma State University, following claims from its author that the institution’s administration has deliberately targeted those from higher-income families as potential students for the past decade. In this process, the report claims that the university has become the “whitest” public institution in California, effectively preferring white students to minorities in an admission practice that it deems “reverse affirmative action.”