With affirmative action in place as government policy, there’s been an increase in admissions, but an even sharper increase in failure.  Affirmative action has been most damaging factor for minorities in America.  Since affirmative action policies boost minority students beyond their capabilities, so that their faces can be counted, huge percentages of them never graduate.

As many as 41% of black students fail to graduate from the University of Michigan.  Their faces are counted as “diversity,” but they don’t graduate.  After being somebody else’s token, then fail and disappear.
 
The “Domino effect of mismatching” has caused “many minority students with all the prerequisites for success (to be) artificially turned into failures because of this pervasive mismatching” of a student to the academic level of the college.

“Nationally, only (between 26 and 35 percent) of black students graduate six years after entering college.  That’s about half the rate of white students.  At some colleges, no more than 20 percent of black students admitted graduate.   . . . These statistics are not new.  They’ve existed since colleges began racial double-standards admissions.”  Economist Professor Walter Williams, “Black Students as Meal Tickets”

“The number of black students enrolled is the key, not the number who graduate.  In fact there’s an element of perversity.  The fewer who graduate justifies calls for greater budgets for academic support and student retention programs.”  (Walter Williams, Black Students as Meal Tickets) 

From RaceFreeZone: This explains the panicked anti-MCRI response by Michigan colleges; they get money for admitting minority students, then more money when these students fail.  Colleges and universities actually have a stake in admission-then-failure of minority students.  Please continue reading--

“Black students with above-average SAT scores cannot be called ‘unqualified,’ but they were certainly mismatched---and 70 percent of them failed to graduate from Berkeley.   Despite rising numbers of black students at Berkeley during the 1980’s, the number of black graduates declined.  (Thomas Sowell, Affirmative Action Around the World, quoting John H. Bunzel, “Affirmative Action Admissions: How it ‘works’ at Berkeley,” 1988) At M.I.T. , the average black student’s math SAT score was in the top 10 percent nationwide—and in the bottom 10 percent at M. I. T.  Nearly one-fourth of these extraordinarily high-ranking black students failed to graduate from M. I. T.”  (Thomas Sowell, Affirmative Action Around the World, quoting Arthur Hu in “The Tech” M.I.T., 1987)

“San Jose University had 70 percent of its black students fail to graduate, just like Berkeley, though it is doubtful that the minority students at Berkeley would have failed at San Jose State.  That is the domino effect of mismatching.”  (Thomas Sowell, Affirmative Action Around the World, citing studies by Professor Clyde Summers of the Yale Law School).

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